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is sufficient for a broad M-alk or ordinary drive. We 

 do not admire a practice which has become common 

 of late, — that, viz., of j^lanting some of the finest 

 lawns of pleasure-gromids with avenues of the Indian 

 cedar. (Phius Deodara.) Judging from the char- 

 acter of this tree, as well as from the peculiar forms 

 of the fir tribe, we have great doubts whether these 

 cedars will ever produce a fine av-enue except as a 

 broad and open one, with double rows on each side. 

 The Indian cedar itself is highly interesting and beau- 

 tiful ; so far as we yet know it, it seems admirably 

 adapted for light grouping or single trees, and it is to 

 be hoped that it will prove sufliciently hardy, not only 

 to live in our climate, but also to attain that magnitude 

 and form, which have so often awakened the admira- 

 tion of travelers in the East. 



I^ote. — In relation to " artificial style," and " ave- 

 nues," we happily have so few places of such charac- 

 ter that they are of rare impediment to those who wish 

 to form either parks or pleasure-grounds anew. Pos- 

 sessing such, however, a fine old mansion, and stately 

 trees, in whatever form they may stand, are objects of 

 decided respectability, and may be preserved and 

 cherished without violence to a very considerable de- 

 gree of beauty and eflect, in their way. The hand of 

 " improvement," in our fast age, may well spare the 

 relics of a bygone century, which could boast, we fear, 

 a sturdier virtue, and a higher patriotism than pre- 

 vails among their more money-loving successors. — Ed. 



