20 ORN'AMEi^TAL GARDENIKG. 



wards purchasing real beauty, pleasure, and comfort, 

 than when the latter alone is employed. 



A large part of the work of the landscape architect now 

 consists in planning for the remodelling of places laid out 

 years ago in bad taste and ignorance. In every instance 

 of this kind, there is in some degree entailed the three- 

 fold expense of first doing the work, then undoing it, 

 and lastly doing it over again; had it been well conceived 

 and executed at the first, the work would have answered 

 for many years. 



In speaking of the profitable advantages of planting 

 shade trees in cities, Mr. Thomas Meehan lately wrote as 

 follows : 



"Passing through a street in Philadeli^hia, on which 

 blocks of first-class houses had been erected on both 

 sides, but evidently by two different owners, there ap- 

 peared to be a wonderful diSerence in success by street 

 trees alone. There was a pretty row of Carolina poplars 

 on one side; on the other side no trees at all. This side 

 had innumerable notices of houses 'to rent,' but on the 

 tree-shaded side every house was occupied. Both blocks 

 appeared to be houses of about equal age and value, and 

 there was no apparent difference between the two. There 

 seemed every reason to believe that the presence of trees 

 alone had given the one side the great advantage.'' 



CHAPTER III. 



TIME REQUIRED FOR PRODUCING GOOD EFFECTS. 



There are many who love trees and shrubs, but are 

 kept from planting them by false notions respecting the 

 time it will take to secure a good effect and shade. It is 

 possible to so treat trees, that in ten years they will not 

 grow the same number of inches ; but on the other hand 



