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great many more names in their catalogues 

 than they have different kinds of plants ; and 

 thus the same plants, like the actors in a country 

 theatre, are often made to perform under a 

 great many different names in the same piece. 

 I have heard of instances where twelve or four- 

 teen species were named in a catalogue, though 

 the nurseryman only possessed three or four, 

 which, when wanted, were made to do duty 

 under all these different names. It is true that 

 all nurserymen are not alike in this respect; 

 and the rapidly increasing knowledge of trees 

 and shrubs on the part of the purchasers, will 

 soon render it impossible to impose false kinds 

 upon them. 



In planting masses of trees and shrubs, great 

 care should be taken to hide the dug ground 

 around them, which always forms a scar in the 

 landscape. The best way of doing this is, to 

 cover all the space between the shrubs with 

 grass, and to tie down the branches of the trees 

 to pegs or stakes fixed in the earth, so as to 

 make the trees feather down to the ground. 

 Where this cannot be accomplished, on account 

 of the expense of clipping the grass, for it 

 cannot be mown among the trees, ivy may be 

 pegged down over the dug ground, or evergreen 

 trailing roses, of which there are many kinds 

 especially adapted for this purpose. There is 

 one general rule relating to the planting of trees 

 and shrubs, which can never be too often re- 

 peated, or too strongly enforced ; it is, never to 

 suffer them to be planted too thickly. This 

 may appear a very simple rule, but it is one 

 which it is very difficult to put in practice, as all 



