Xil CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIL 



GENERAL OBSERVATIOJfS ON THE LAYING-OUT AND 

 IMPROVEMENT OF GROUNDS, 



Landscape-gardening — Analogies to Landscape-painting — Com- 

 parative Power over Materials — Simplicity and Multiplicity of 

 Points of View — Processes -wholly and partly Tentative — Pro- 

 priety of Revision — Utility of Plans— Hazard of Preparatory 

 Operations, . . . • • ■ • • 287 



CHAPTER Xm. 



THE ARBORETUM. 



Definition— Recent Introduction— General Idea of Arrangement— 

 Sect. I. Scientific Treatment of the Arboretum — Introductory Re- 

 marks— Dr. Lindley's Classification of the Natural Orders — 

 Explanations— Synopsis of Orders and Genera— Apphcation of 

 Principles— Transference of the System to the Ground. 

 Sect. II. Decorative Treatment of the Arboretum— Object in View — 

 Employment of Larger Trees— Lawns— Surfaces planted— Ever- 

 greens— Arbore turns attached to Private Residences— Sites in 

 Pleasure-grotmds. . . .... 3U3 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE PINETUM. 



Remarks on Special Collections of Trees— The Pinetum— Materials 

 and Arrano-ement — Enumeration of Sijccics, with Observations on 

 the Groups— Effects of Climate— Soil— Early Cultivation of the 

 Plants— Planting of the Pinetum— Pruning of tlie Trees— Deco- 

 rative Treatment of the Pinetum, . . . . .333 



