610 FOREST CULTURE AND 
mit that industrial interests would be promoted at 
the same time. Even part of the unexplored coast of 
New Guinea is at no greater distance from Somerset, 
at Cape York, than Launceston from Port Philip, and 
yet there are on that coast, within sight, snowy moun- 
tains as yet unascended. Even if a collector from 
our botanic garden could be ‘pushed into that grand 
island, we would perform legitimate and honorable 
work, and might attain great results at but modest 
cost, 
In some parts of Europe the fashions of horticul- 
ture have recently undergone some changes again, 
so far as to render the growing of flowers in masses, 
or bands, or decorative figures less predominant, as 
this extremely artificial culture is giving way largely 
to the far more natural one of picturesque or scenic 
grouping. I advisedly do not apply to this system of 
planting the term ‘sub-tropical gardening,” which 
is yet retained in the excellent book published this 
year by Mr. William Robinson, of Kensington, who 
has contributed by this and other works (such as the 
one on the gardens, parks, and promenades of Paris ) 
so much to ennoble horticulture to simpler, natural 
grandeur, and lead it to higher scientific tastes. 
With still less logical propriety can the appellation 
of landscape gardening be chosen for this process of - 
scenic ornamentation or group - planting, as we com- 
prehend something far more extensive by a landscape 
than the ordinary limited areas of gardens or even of 
parks. Call it whatever you like, this novel system 
is the very opposite of geometric or formal decorative 
planting; all these manners of culture have advan- 
tages of their own, more particularly in relation to 
