116 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



decoration of the outline, the decoration ot 

 interior walks or rides, the decoration of any 

 part which is an object from a particular 

 point of view, &c, 



Thirdly, where the object is the culture of 

 decorative timber chiefly*. The Oak, the 

 Beech, the Chesnur, the Horse-Chesnut, the 

 Lime, the Platanus, the Poplar, the Syca- 

 more, the Larch, the Weymouth Pine, and 

 the American Spruce, are objects of the first 

 importance, and are to be varied according 

 to circumstances, as above. 



Fourthly, aquatic parts. The Alder, the 

 Poplar, and the Willow, are the kinds most 

 likely to succeed ; but the Birch, the Elm, 

 and even the Oak, in some cases, may be 

 added with success; as, the Elm by the sides 

 of rivers or pools which only sometimes over- 

 flow their banks, and where the soil is sandy 

 or gravelly; the Birch in like situations, and 

 where the soil is either such, or more loamy; 

 and the Oak, at the conjunction of marshes 

 and the higher ground which form their li- 



*The reader is requested to keep in mind, that this 

 is a treatise on timber only ; Shrubs, or their culture, 

 forming no part of it. 



