20 FLOWERS AND THE JFLOWER GARDEN. 



stakes and sticks, garden pots, labels, linie, sulphur, 

 tobacco, &c. 



Conveniences should be arranged in the form of water- 

 tanks and butts (kept tarred when necessary), pipes, and 

 all such appliances for catching the rain-water which 

 falls on all the roofs, for the use of the garden. 



CHAPTEE IV. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES AND EVERGREENS. 



BY ornamental trees, I mean all which may, with good 

 effect, find place in the flower garden and such sur- 

 rounding pleasure ground as often appertains to a dwell- 

 ing of moderate pretension. The list of such is so 

 extensive that a mere catalogue might fill a volume; I 

 will therefore only mention a few suggestively, and they 

 will be quite enough to choose from to plant a shrubbery 

 of moderate size ornamentally. 



Perhaps the largest kinds admissible into the pre- 

 cincts of the flower garden, or its immediate neighbour- 

 hood, are the Horse-chestnut and the Catalpa. Not that 

 we need shut out many trees which grow as tall, but 

 these are bulky from growing wide as well as tall, and 

 from bearing a bold foliage. There are spots where a 

 large thick tree will grow, and its shelter be valuable, 

 and for such a position it is nice to have one which is 

 handsome in foliage most part of the year, and gay and 

 beautiful with flowers in its season. The horse-chestnut 

 loves a deep rich loam ; the common sorts grow readily 

 from the nut : other kinds grow from grafts, buds, or 

 layers. The bloom of the common horse-chestnut is so 

 grand and showy, yet so delicate and soft in colouring, 

 that I do not think any of the newer kinds surpass it in 

 beauty ; but the red-flowered (/Esculus rubicunda) is 

 very much admired, and it has the merit (for grounds of 



