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and miniature lawns, v.-here, if it thrives, as we de- 

 sire it may, it will speedily overshadow every thing 

 else. We would strongly urge the extensive but con- 

 siderate planting of this fine tree. 



(2.) The second general form of trees is a varied 

 one, and may be held as embracing three subordinate 

 figures : the rounded cone of the Scotch fir, and some 

 others of its class, and generally of the holly; the 

 truncated cone of the silver fir; and the spiry, elon- 

 gated cone of the vaiifous spruces, larches, Swiss Cem- 

 bran pine, and perhaps the deciduous cypress. Many 

 of the pines lately introduced, such as P. excelsa^ 

 Lanihertiana^ Sabiniana^ inacrocarjya^ are certainly 

 pyramidal, and will fall under one or other of these 

 subdivisions when aged. Indeed, the w^hole class of 

 conifers assume their final form only when fiir advanced 

 in growth. 



The Holly is almost the only broad-leaved tree of 

 this group. It is generally of a low, bushy form, 

 rounded, but sometimes also with a spiry cone. Grow- 

 ing in woods, and on a light soil, we have seen it sixty 

 feet in height, and with a trunk eight feet in circum- 

 ference. It may be planted in the dressed grounds, 

 and also in the woods of the park, as underwood, 

 among deciduous trees. "When scattered along the 

 outskirts of a recess or glade, it has a fine effect in 

 thickening th^mass and deepening the shade. 



The Scotch Fir has been planted to a much greater 

 extent than any other fir, in Great Britain and Ire- 

 land. No tree has been more decried and condemned 

 as being ugly ; and certainly, in many cases this dis- 

 praise has been deserved; a close, ill-thinned, and 

 worse-pruned plantation of this tree, on a flat and 



