Trees and Shrubs 71 



his worshipers declared, the first ** gentleman" 

 in the land, but deserves to be called one of the 

 most tasteful landscape artists in England. 



The English are greatly favored by their cli- 

 mate, which permits all kinds of evergreens to 

 live safely through the winter, such as rhododen- 

 dron, cherry laurel, Portuguese laurel, all vari- 

 eties of holly, arbutus, viburnum, buxus, and 

 Daphne laureola, etc., which at all times furnish 

 ready material for thick flowering and beauti- 

 fully shaded shrubberies. 



The usual way for planting has hitherto been, 

 and still is, even now, in famous places like Chis- 

 wick and others, to arrange either oval or round 

 clumps on the lawn and draw long, wavy lines 

 (or have strips of grass of an even width) along 

 the paths, which are always marked off by a 

 clean-cut border, and back of this appears the 

 black soil of quite elevated beds which are care- 

 fully raked clean. The shrubs are also severely 

 pruned so that they hardly touch one another. 

 Flowers are set here and there in order to give 

 more color to the plantation, but the result of it 

 largely is that one sees so much black earth in- 

 stead of green color that a disagreeable vacilla- 

 tion between formality and natural irregularity 

 is apparent. Mr. Nash has entirely abandoned 

 this kind of arrangement. He masses the shrubs 

 more closely together, allows the grass to disap- 

 pear in wide sweeps under the plants, or lets it 

 run along the edges of the shrubs without trim- 

 ming them. At the same time he sets a number 



