te2 ©F RURAL GARDENINC. SECT. XI. 



If there is good room, Jingle trees of the/)- kind, at clue 

 diitances, are admirable ornaments about a houfe, and 

 clumps of Ihrubs all of the fame kind have a good 

 effea. 



Thofe who have much fpace of ground to decorate, 

 do well to plant trees and ihrubs of every kind, as 

 enlarging the fources of amufement, and affording 

 opportunities for obfervation; but if the allotment of 

 ground for this purpofe is contracled, then, of courfe, 

 thofe only fhould be planted, which by their neat foliage, 

 natural iyrametry, and gay flowers, may be truly eiteem- 

 ed ornamental. They mould be fuch as ftrike the eye 

 of perfons in general though they have nothing of 

 fingularity to engage the attention of the curious in 

 plants. It too often happens, that good old forts of 

 trees, fhrubs, and flowers, are excluded for new ones, 

 but if the latter are not more elegant, and generally 

 pleafing, the practice is furely not a wife one : in 

 ornamental gardening, on a J ma 11 fcale, great care 

 fhould be taken, in the choice ot what is really pretty, 

 that nothing dull or rambling be introduced. 



In the moft jhcltered place, near, the houfe, there 

 fhould be an inclofure of a compact nature, as fuppoie 

 oS.yciv, dwarf, elm, ox hornbeam, (rather the former) open 

 only to the South, as a neceflaiy apartment to place 

 things in from the greenhoufe, -Or occafionally the hot- 

 -fjoujc, tender annuals, or any hardy curious potted 

 plants, for a fummcr refidencc. Spruce firs anfwer 

 very well for a fcreen, being kept dipt a little after 

 Midfummcr. For this purpofe, or for hedges to fepa- 

 rate, or divide, any fpot of ground, the hop hornbeam is 

 better than the common fort, which holds its dead leaves 

 on all the winter, and makes a litter at fpring. This 

 bufmefs may alio be eafily effecled by planting elder 

 cuttings at a footafunder, which will grow up quickly, 

 being kept moilr. 



The walks fhould always be wide, fome (in general) 

 Terpentine, and -contrived as much as poilible upon a 



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