60 THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



out the day ; the west in the morning ; the east in 

 the afternoon. Speaking with a view only to garden- 

 ing effect, trees, which are generally much too near 

 the dwelling for health, and beauty, and everything 

 else, should be kept at a distance from the house, 

 except on the east side. On the south and west 

 they keep off the sun, of which we can never have 

 too much in England ; and on the north they render 

 the place damp and gloomy ; whereas, on that side 

 they should be kept so far from the windows as to 

 back and shelter a bright bank of shrubs and flowers, 

 planted far enough from the shadow cast by the house 

 to catch the sun upon them during the greater 

 part of the year and day. The prospect towards 

 the north would then be as cheerful as any other. 



It is astonishing how people continue to plant 

 spruce and Scotch firs, and larches, and other incon- 

 gruous forest-trees, so close that they chafe the very 

 house with their branches, when there are at hand 

 such beautiful trees as the Lebanon and Deodara 

 cedars ; or, for smaller, or more formal, or spiral 

 shrubs, the red cedar, the Cyprus, the arbor-vitas, 

 the holly, the yew, and most graceful of all, either 

 as a tree or shrub, or rather uniting the properties 

 of both, and which only requires shelter to make it 

 flourish the hemlock spruce. 



As a low shrubby plant on the lawn, nothing can 

 exceed the glossy, dark, indented leaves and bright 

 yellow spikes of the new evergreen berberries (Ber- 

 beris* aquifolium and B. repent), with their many 



* Now changed to Mahonia. 



