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and when skilfully arranged and blended together what 

 beautiful pictures may be made with them! 



Some of our trees produce beautiful flowers, others beauti- 

 fully colored leaves; some take the spiry form, and others 

 grow with well-rounded outline; some grow with a spread- 

 ing or graceful habit, while others are close and massive 

 in their build; some have thick and compact foliage, while 

 others are provided with light and airy leaves; — and the 

 true lover of nature will find much pleasure in the study of 

 the numberless forms and varieties, and especially in arrang- 

 ing them so as to obtain the most real beauty possible. 



A Plan 



Before any planting is done a plan of arrangement must 

 be decided upon. As with plans for dwellings, much good 

 work can be and is done by amateurs in making plans for 

 ornamental planting, but unless one has made considerable 

 study of the materials to be used and the results to be 

 obtained by their combination, and has investigated all of 

 the points as to the special requirements of soil, planting, 

 training, etc., of each species or variety, the advice of an 

 expert should be sought. 



While in making plans for the arrangement of ornamental 

 trees, shrubs, etc., the money paid to a skilled landscape- 

 gardener for a detailed plan often saves many times this 

 amount, I would not discourage the study of the landscape 

 art by advising every one to have a plan made by a trained 

 landscape engineer; for the more general the knowledge 

 among our people there can be upon any subject the better 

 it will be for the whole communit} , while the monopoly of 

 any line of education or knowledge by the few is a crime 

 and an injury to the people as a whole; and many an ama- 

 teur has been able to produce results that ha\'e not been 

 reached by members of the profession. 



