132 nEirAnKS on the shrubbery. 



out shoots, more light will be wanted than before, but greater 

 care will also be necessary to guard against cold at this uncertain 

 season of the year, 



An Amateur, 



ARTICLE VII, 

 REMARKS ON THE SHRUBBERY. 



BY HEV. HENRY HILL, A. M. 



(Continued from page 112.) 



In addition to the trees and shrubs, which will be noticed in 

 *,his work as flowering the latest, aid should be borrowed from 

 such autumr.al flowers as continue gay until the approach of 

 winter. The towering hollyhock, when half concealed, and half 

 seen through the shrubs and evergreens, is one of the boldest 

 enliveners of the plantation at this season. This plant yields to 

 none in beauty of form, majesty of carriage, or gaiety of colour 

 its hues proceed through all the tints of crimson, from the 

 palest rose to the deepest purple ; and from the purest white 

 through all the shades of yellow, orange, and iron-brown. The 

 tall sunflower should also figure in the back ground; and the 

 middle space may be allotted to the richly varied delea of the 

 western world. The foreground is to be rendered splendid by 

 large plots of the asters of China, the general tints of which, in- 

 clining to blue or purple, contrast well with the more gaudy 

 colours of the African marigold, or the nasturtium of Peru, 

 which latter should be suffered to climb the holly or other trees, 

 exhibiting its flaming petals to enliven the closing year. 



In young plantations, where the evergreens have not spread 

 sufficiently to cover the surface, clumps of Avail-flowers are ex- 

 ceedingly ornamental, and their green, which is of the most 

 agreeable tint, lasts through the winter, they often flower both 

 late in the autumn and early in the summer. The periwinkle is 

 also an excellent running plant to cover the slopes and banks of 

 the shrubbery, as its blue flowers are to be seen amidst its ever- 

 green leaves, from March to the middle of November. 



It must not be forgotten that England possesses advantages 

 over every other part of the globe for ornamental gardening ; 

 first the fineness and beauty of its turf, which retains its verdure 



