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five, judiciously placed on a lawn, would form a most agreeable group, or 

 with any of the following, taking a central position amongst them, viz. : — 

 The Weymouth pine, spruce fir, silver fir, red cedar, or larch. I believe that 

 it thrives well on moist soil; and it bears the shade very well, but is all 

 the better for shelter. 



The Cembran Pine (Pinus ccmbra) is a handsome and compact tree, 

 calculated for the middle of a group of low trees, or for two or three, taking 

 the outside of a group of larches. 



The Cedrus deodara is of rather modern introduction, but promises to be 

 one of the handsomest evergreen trees we have. It seems to partake much 

 of the character of the larch, having very similar twigs and foliage, but of a 

 bluer green, and differs materially from it in being an evergreen. In habit 

 it is elegantly pendant. It is likely to be as hardy as the Cedar of Lebanon, 

 and of quicker growth. Indigenously it attains a very considerable size, and 

 scarcely ought to have been classed amongst low trees. It should have a 

 prominent situation on lawns where three might form a group ; or the red 

 cedar or upright cypress, or perhaps both, rising from amongst them, would 

 have an agreeable effect, while a larch would look still better. But there 

 should be nothing placed before the cedar that would be liable to obstruct the 

 view of the whole of its graceful form. 



The Saddle-leaved Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) is peculiarly 

 interesting, and greatly to be admired on account of its singular and beautiful 

 leaf, which is large and of a cheerful green, something in the shape of a 

 saddle, (from which I have no doubt its name has been partly derived, and 

 partly from its blossoms being in the form of the common tulip flower). It 

 attains a fair size in some situations, and has all the characteristics of the 

 Spanish chesnut when without foliage. It should be planted in sheltered 

 situations, and in some good loose soil. It groups well with the plane tree. 



The Thorn family (Crataegus), of which species and varieties are numerous 

 and highly interesting. We may select the following : — Crataegus grandiflora, 

 punicea, punicea flora plena, douglassii, praecox, tanacetifolia, glabra and 

 celsiana, spathulata, orientalis and sanguinea, all of which may be thrown 

 into groups of two, three, four, or more. Some of the groups may have their 

 massive outline varied by introducing amongst them one, two, or more, of any 

 of the following : — the larch, spruce fir, hemlock-spruce, silver fir, Weymouth 



