Introduction, etc. 



Acanthuses too, when well grown, are very suitable 

 for this use. Then we have a hardy Palm, that 

 has preserved its health and greenness in sheltered 

 positions, where its leaves could not be torn to 

 shreds by storms, through all our recent hard 

 winters. 



And when we have obtained these, and many 

 like subjects, we may associate them with not a 

 few things of much beauty among trees and 

 shrubs — with elegant tapering young pines, many 

 of which, like Cupressus nutkaensis and the true 

 Thuja gigantea, have branchlets as graceful as a 

 Selaginella ; not of necessity bringing the larger 

 thines into close or awkward association with the 

 humbler and dwarfer subjects, but sufficiently so 

 to carry the eye from the minute and pretty to 

 the higher and more dignified forms of vegetation. 

 By a judicious selection from the vast number 

 of hardy plants now obtainable in this country, 

 and by associating with them, where it is con- 

 venient, house plants that may be placed out for 

 the summer, we may arrange and enjoy charms 

 in the flower-garden to which we are as yet 

 strangers, simply because we have not sufficiently 

 selected from and utilized the vast amount of 

 vegetable beauty at our disposal. 



