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or introduced ; and, finally, that some directions should be 

 left for the management of the garden. 



" In endeavoring to accommodate the design submitted to 

 Mr. Strutt, to his instructions and to the situation, the first 

 point determined on was, that the whole interest of the gar- 

 den should be contained within itself. 



" The mode of doing this was next to be considered, 

 when it appeared that a general botanic garden would be 

 too expensive, both to create and to keep up. That a mere 

 composition of trees and shrubs with turf, in the manner of a 

 common pleasure ground, would become insipid after being 

 seen two or three times ; and, in short, that the most suitable 

 kind of public garden for all the circumstances included in 

 the above data was an arboretum, or collection of trees and 

 shrubs, foreign and indigenous, which would endure the 

 open air in the climate of Derby, with the names placed to 

 each. Such a collection will have all the ordinary beauties 

 of a pleasure ground viewed as a whole ; and yet from no 

 tree or shrub occurring twice in the whole collection, and 

 from the names of every tree and shrub Being placed against 

 it, an inducement is held out, for those who walk in the gar- 

 den, to take an interest in the name and history of each spe- 

 cies, its use in this country or in other countries, its appear- 

 ance at different seasons of the year, and the various associa- 

 tions connected with it. 



" A similar interest might, no doubt, have been created by 

 a collection of herbaceous plants ; but this collection, to be 

 efi'ective in such a space of ground, must have amounted to 

 at least 5,000 species ; and to form such a collection and 

 keep it up, would have been much more expensive than 

 forming the most complete collection of trees and shrubs 

 that can at present be made in Britain. 



" It is further to be observed, respecting a collection of 

 herbaceous plants, that it would have presented no beauty or 

 interest whatever during the winter season ; whereas among 

 trees and shrubs there are all the evergreen kinds, which are 

 more beautiful in winter than in summer, while the decidu- 

 ous kinds at that season, show an endless variety in the 



