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even ignorance here should not prevent us from introducing 

 the latter into our grounds. Whatever their relative rank in 

 the scale of beauty may be, they include many elegant 

 trees, without which our lawns and pleasure grounds would 

 be sadly deficient in variety and pleasing effects. 



We wish to interest every admirer of fine trees and all 

 lovers of rural improvement in the introduction of more vari- 

 ety in our pleasure grounds, upon our lawns, and around our 

 dwellings. The Elm, the Horsechestnut and the Maple are 

 fine shade trees, always deserving a place among others ; but 

 they are not to be planted everywhere, without reference to 

 the fitness of the situation, and without regard to variety. Es- 

 pecially in ornamental plantations of smaller or larger extent 

 should variety be introduced, adding interest to every garden 

 by the greater number of objects, their relative beauty, dec, — 

 for Variety is a source of the beautiful and picturesque as 

 much as Contrast, Simplicity or Unity. 



Among the great number of well known trees, there is no 

 want of kinds to create variety in ornamental plantations of 

 any extent. But for the more elegant and refined description 

 of landscape beauty, such as the lawn or pleasure ground, 

 there are many new trees of recent introduction and less 

 known, that add greatly to their finished character, and de- 

 serve to be extensively planted. We shall briefly name a 

 few of them : 



1. Trees with finely divided leaves. 



The Cut-leaved Beech, {Fagus heterophylla.) — This is 

 one of the finest of the cut-leaved kinds of trees. It possesses 

 the fine habit and general character of growth of the English 

 Beech, though perhaps a little more compact, and the foliage 

 is deeply and finely cut or divided, like a fern leaf, having a 

 very attractive appearance. 



The Cut-leated or Eagle's Claw Maple, (Acer plata- 

 noides lasciniatum. ) — Another curious leaved tree, with foliage 

 so deeply indented that, with its fine sharp points, it bears 

 resemblance enough to an eagle's claw or hawk's foot to give 

 it that name. It is rather a slow-growing tree, but its habit 



