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injured by winds. It might with propriety bo associated with the pine 

 family, phillyreas, or hollies, but should not be interrupted by them. 



The Holly (Ilex). The various fancy hollies are exceedingly handsome 

 and useful shrubby evergreen trees, and ought to be planted in large and 

 small groups on lawns, as well as in the shrubbery, and so as to exhibit as 

 much as possible the different varieties. I may mention the gold-ed«ed, 

 silver-edged, dark smooth-leaved, opaque, balearica, green and variegated 

 hedgehog, small or willow-leaved, with the latifolia, as being distinct and 

 pleasing, generally suitable for forming blocks and producing intricacy, so as 

 to deceive the eye as to the real extent of the dress grounds which they may 

 adorn. 



The Maiden-hair Tree (Salisburia adiantifolia) is another tender tree of 

 slow growth, more singular than beautiful. It has peculiar, thick fungus-like 

 foliage, and requires a sheltered spot. It may associate with the holly, 

 white cedar, and China arbor-vitre. 



The Snowdrop Tree (Halesia tetraptera) is a low deciduous tree, having 

 white snowdrop-like blossoms, in spring, hanging upon its twigs, which make 

 it an elegant object, especially when mixed with the thorn family. 



The Cotoneastcr frigida is a low deciduous shrubby tree, of pleasing form 

 and foliage, retaining its leaves longer in the autumn than many others. Its 

 white blossom in the spring, and coral hawthorn-like berries in the autumn, 

 render it an agreeable object. It groups well with the mespilus, or would be 

 in keeping if interspersed, occasionally, with the Phillyrea ilex, alaternus, or 

 scarlet and double pink thorn. 



The Ailantus glandulosa is a stiff-growing deciduous tree, with obtuse, finger- 

 like branches, and ash-like foliage of immense size, which renders it singularly 

 ornamental. It groups well with the Robinia tortuosa and microphilla. 



The following are a few useful and interesting kinds of larger and smaller 

 shrubs : — 



The Buckthorn (Rhamnus alaternus). The broad, narrow, and blotched 

 leaved alaternus all form loose, evergreen, shrubby trees, and are proper for 

 hiding any deformities or improper objects, and form, of themselves, varied 

 massive groups. When thought desirable, an agreeable variety may be 

 produced by introducing into the group of alaternus, a larch, spruce fir, or 

 Weymouth pine. 



