ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS. 



For the benefit of those who are not acquainted with plants generally, I have 

 named, below, a few select ornamental trees and shrubs as suitable to intro- 

 duce into the dress-grounds, where they must be so arranged and adjusted 

 that they may remain permanently, and have the intermediate spaces filled up 

 with common kinds, to be taken away when required. 



The following trees are adapted to situations requiring large growing 

 trees, as grass plants, or otherwise, in masses, viz. : — 



The Purple Beech (Fagus sylvatica purpurea), whose noble and wide- 

 spreading branches, and peculiar foliage, are particularly striking and inter- 

 esting. It should have plenty of room in which to show its form and beauty. 

 — I believe quite as much as the common beech, — but should only be here 

 and there introduced, for variety's sake. 



The Cut-leaved Beech (Fagus incisa) is another, rather more formal and 

 upright than its relation, and branches more from the stem in tiers, but 

 becomes, in time, a large and most beautiful tree, having numerous feathered 

 twigs on its stiff arms, and beautiful long serrated leaves. These beeches, 

 being large growing trees, are most suitable for a situation in the centre of 

 others of lower growth. 



The Horse Chesnut (JEsculus hippocastanum) is a large, pendent, and 

 handsome tree, when aged; but, till it is so, it is stiff, and not much to be 

 admired, excepting for its large cut leaves and long spikes of cream-white 

 blossoms in spring. So with the Scarlet Chesnut (JEsculus ruhkunda), whose 

 habit and growth are similar. Its large spikes of scarlet blossoms, however, 

 make it extremely showy. Both kinds may advantageously be planted on 

 lawns in front of a mass, or in a group of trees of more open and lofty growth. 



The Spanish Chesnut (Castanca vesca) is a majestic open growing tree, 

 whose handsome serrated and glossy foliage, and green-yellow blossoms in 



