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considerable size, a great amount of stones is not 

 ■ necessary. Most of its interior may be of earth ; and 

 to produce a sufficient illusion, it may be enough to 

 stud some portions of the surface with stones. In a 

 few years, the growth of plants and low shrubs placed 

 on it will conceal apparent defects. 



Note. — The only " rockwork " an American should 

 care to introduce into his grounds, is that which nature 

 has placed upon them; and such, agreeably located, 

 may be made decidedly ornamental when partially 

 clothed with creei^ing vines and shrubbery. In 

 grounds naturally rocky — that is, in ledges and 

 masses, as distinguished from lands where the stones 

 lie in loose flats, or boulders — a sufficient amount of 

 rock should be retained to preserve the cliaracter of 

 the grounds in consistency with the geological surface 

 of the surrounding country. They are a natural fea- 

 ture of the place, and natural features, not unpleasing 

 in themselves, should always be preserved as a char- 

 acteristic of the locality. — Ed. 



Shelter of the Flovter-garden-. — It has already 

 been remarked, that to the flower-garden proper shel- 

 ter is indispensable. In providing this needful pro- 

 tection, most people plant an indiscriminate mass of 

 trees and shrubs, without regard to individual effect 

 or botanical classification. We humbly think that 

 this is the part of the ground in which something like 

 a scientific character in the disposition of the trees 

 and shrubs is most suitable. "Without carrying this 

 to such pedantic extremes as some do, we should be 

 inclined to arrange the trees mostly according to their 

 genera and natural orders. Beginning at some con- 

 Tenient point, as with Tilia,, (lime,) the planter might 

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