DRESS WOODED SCENERY 

 IN CONNEXION WITH TENDER TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Ix extensive domains the dress grounds often extend amongst ornamental and 

 forest plantings, which are thrown into groups and masses, and blended with 

 free and bold expanses of lawn. Here, in some degree, we ought to extend 

 the shrubbery also. Masses and thickets of common shrubs are essential to 

 produce variety and intricacy in the outline of glades, as well as to shut out 

 wilder growths ; and, in combination with suitable trees, to afford or produce 

 nurseries for interesting tender plants. When grounds more in the vicinity 

 of the edifice are not calculated to afford protection to tender plants, these 

 preparations are important. Well- sheltered glades in wooded scenery, where 

 the situation is dry and sufficiently open to the morning and mid- day sun, 

 are undoubtedly better suited to tender trees and shrubs than an open 

 south aspect in front of walls or buildings, — on which I think too much 

 dependence is often placed, — because the winds are broken, and do not play 

 upon them so violently as amongst walls unaided by trees, and they are also 

 more protected from frost. 



Of course, proper compost soils are necessary, and should be adapted to 

 the various kinds of plants to be introduced ; and in many cases a year or 

 two's protection by basket-work or hurdles, branches of fir, or other devices, 

 is important. 



