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pine ; or two red cedars and a cypress would produce a pleasing and a broken 

 outline in a massive group. 



The Magnolia is a highly interesting flowering family, but is scarcely 

 hardy ; and though some of them become trees, yet, in our cold climate, they 

 seldom assume more than a shrubby character. They are principally grown 

 against walls, for the sake of shelter. The grandiflora, and grandiflora exoni- 

 ensis, succeed moderately well in warm and moist situations ; consequently, 

 a well-sheltered bay of lawn, with a south-east aspect, should be chosen. The 

 exoniensis is a fine evergreen species, of noble, thick, shining light-green 

 foliage, similar to the common laurel, but much larger. M. conspicua is 

 deciduous, and produces showy white blossoms early in the spring. These, 

 with lanceolata, rotundifolia, glauca, and tripctala, form suitable groups — 

 tripetala taking the centre, being the largest grower, and, in some instances, 

 making a good-sized tree ; and one or two, or more, may take part in a 

 group with the Laurestinus, Acuba japonica, or Mahonia aquifolia or inter- 

 media. 



The Crijptomeria japonica is a tree of modern introduction. It is a very 

 beautiful, formal, evergreen tree, with a straight stem, studded with regular 

 tiers of branches in a horizontal position, similar to the silver fir. It makes 

 a fine lawn plant in a sheltered situation. 



The Evergreen Oak, (Quercus ilex), though generally seen as a low 

 dense evergreen, often becomes a majestic tree. During one of my visits to 

 Wollaton Park, the seat of Lord Middleton, I saw some noble specimens on 

 the lawn at the south front of the edifice. One of them measured upwards 

 of four feet in diameter a few feet above the ground. They are quite hardy, 

 and while young they are well calculated to mask out any object, or to prevent 

 the eye from tracing the whole extent of lawn. 



The Silver and Gold-edged Holly, Snowy Mesplus, Arbutus, Weymouth 

 Pine, or Hemlock-spruce, would, any of them, afford variety, and harmonize, 

 if introduced in some of the groups of oaks. 



The Chili Pine (Araucaria imbricata) is a singular and strikingly noble 

 evergreen, of compact upright form, with regular tiers of stiff hmbs, heavily 

 clustered with branches thickly clothed with small rigid fohage. This must 

 have a select situation on the lawn : though moderately hardy, shelter is 

 essentially necessary, as it is somewhat top heavy, and therefore liable to be 



