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The trees and shrubs on the lawn are almost all disposed in Uie gar 

 denesque manner: that is, so that eacli individual plant may assume its 

 natural shape and habit of growth. The masses are also chiefly plant- 

 ed in the same style ; and, as the trees and shrubs advance in growth, 

 tiiey are cut in, or thinned out, so that ench individual, if separated 

 from the mass to which it belongs, and considered by itself alone, shall 

 be a handsome plant. At the same time, in order to produce as much 

 variety as possible, the picturesque style of planting, in wiiich trees 

 and shrubs are so closely grouped together as partially to injure each 

 other's growth, occasionally occurs, for the sake of producing variety. 

 With the exception of the pines and firs, the other trees have been 

 selected more for their picturesque effect and variety of foliage, than 

 for their botanical interest. Among these are the Scotch pine for its 

 darkness ; the P pulus angulata for its large leaves, and for its proper- 

 ty of preserving these till destroyed by severe frost, long before which 

 all the other poplars have become naked; the A'cer macrophyllum, for 

 its large leaves ; the Montpelier maple, for its small ones ; the Negundo 

 fraxinifolium, for its green-barked shoots ; the American oaks, for the 

 singular variety in form and color of their foliage ; the catalpa, for its 

 broad rich yellowish leaves, and its showy blossoms, which appear late 

 in the season; the deciduous cypress; the bonduc, or Kentucky coffee 

 tree ; the cut-leaved alder, the tulip tree, the purple beech, the purple 

 hazel, the Oriental plane, of which there are several fine specimens, the 

 variegated sycamore, and other variegated trees and shrubs, which are 

 always so beautiful in spring; those thorns and crabs which are beau- 

 tiful or remarkable for their blossoms in the spring, and for their fruit 

 in autumn ; the Nepal sorbus, so interesting for its large woolly 

 leaves, which die off of a fine straw color; the magnolias; the rhodo- 

 dendrons, the heaths, the brooms, and the double-blossomed furze, be- 

 sides various striking or popular plants, such as the variegated hollies 

 the scarlet arbutus, etc. Among the detached trees and small groups, 

 there is scarcely to be met with a single bush or tree tliat a general 

 observer will not find noticeable for something in its foliage, general 

 form, flowers, or fruit. The Magnolia grandiflora v;!r. exonic'-nsii 

 ,%wers freely as a standard without any protection, and v.-as not even 

 injured by the winter of 1837-8; nor was A'rbutus proctra, also uo« 



