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wc might devote oue city park chiefly to large deciduous trees ; 

 another, say a suburban oue, as liiehmond, mainly to evergreen 

 forest trees ; a third to the almost countless flowering deciduous 

 trees and shrubs that are the glory of the grove and copse in all 

 nortliern and temperate countries ; and so on. Or we might 

 treat the sul)ject geographically, and have one small park of 

 Frencli or British trees, shrubs, and plants; another of European, 

 a third of American, a fourth of Siberian, and so on. Tliis phin 



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does not involve the rejection of other types of vegetation. On 

 tlie contrary, their presence would often be necessary to contrast 

 with those to which a park or garden might be chiefly devoted. 

 But even if it were determined to devote a park exclusively to the 

 vegetation of one country, no one need doubt that the highest 

 elfects could be produced by it alone who remembers what we find 

 in our lanes and woodbinds from the association of a few kinds of 

 native phints. We could, hy the adoption of this system, define 



