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great service in furnishing materials for the study of 

 botany. 



In the larger grounds, common about high schools and 

 colleges, usually a style of gardening more natural in its 

 features may be employed, owing to the more favorable 

 circumstances. Sometimes very fine displays of ornament- 

 al gardening, as well as more useful botanical gardens are 

 established, as at Harvard and elsewhere. Such improve- 

 ments find appreciation from the patrons of the schools, 

 and may readily be made to add much to their complete- 

 ness as educational institutions. 



TREATMENT OF CHURCH YARDS. 



In adorning church yards, the aim should be towards 

 introducing quiet and graceful beauty, consequently such 

 trees as the Camperdown Weeping Elm, Kilmarnock 

 Willow, Yellow Wood, Ginkgo, and the evergreens and 

 flowering shrubs are to be preferred. There should be a 

 great deal of clear lawn in proportion to other embel- 

 lishments. Whatever trees are introduced should not 

 be crowded, but receive a free setting well supported by 

 grass, while the shubbery and evergreens may be ar- 

 ranged in well defined clumps. The climbers should be 

 freely used for mantling the outside walls in places, and 

 especially in those numerous cases where there are no 

 garden surroundings. 



GARDEITS FOR HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS. 



Some of the most successful ornamental gardens in 

 the country are those associated with hospitals, insane 

 and other asylums. It is found that money may be as 

 profitably spent in providing fine lawns, trees, shrubs, 

 flowers, green-houses, etc., for aiding in the relief of un- 

 fortunates, as in any other direction for rendering these 

 institutions as useful as possible. 



