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ramification of their branches and spray, the color of their 

 bark, and the color and form of their buds. 



" Add also that trees and shrubs, and especially evergreens, 

 give shelter and encouragement to singing birds, to which 

 herbaceous plants offer little or no shelter or food. 



" There are yet other arguments in favor of trees and shrubs 

 for a garden of recreation, which are worth notice. 



" Herbaceous plants arc low and small, and to have any 

 effect must be numerous ; while to acquire their names and 

 look into their beauties, persons walking in the garden must 

 stand still and stoop down, which, when repeated several 

 times, would soon, instead of a recreation, become very 

 fatiguing. Now trees and shrubs are large objects, and 

 there is scarcely one of them the beauty of which may not 

 be seen and enjoyed by the spectator while walking past it, 

 and without standing still at all. 



" A herbaceous plant is chiefly interesting for its flowers 

 and the form of its foliage, in which in general there is little 

 change of color : but, to these two sources of interest, trees 

 and shrubs add the opening buds in spring ; the color of the 

 unexpanded foliage immediately after it has burst from the 

 bud ; the fine green, tinged with some other color, which the 

 first leaves assume when they are fully expanded, and which 

 continues, more or less, till the middle of June ; the intensely 

 deep green of summer, which continues till the end of July ; 

 the first changes of autumn to red or yello\^ which com- 

 mence in August ; and the dying off of all the different 

 shades of red, crimson, yellow, orange, brown and purple, 

 which continues taking place till Christmas ; while some 

 deciduous trees, such as the beach and hornbeam, the com- 

 mon oak in certain soils kept moist, and the duercus Tauzin 

 in all soils and situations, retain their leaves after they have 

 become brown, till the following May. 



" There are also in deciduous trees the color and bloom of 

 the young shoots of the current year ; the different colors 

 which the bark of these shrubs in many cases assumes the 

 year following, (Salix decipines for example,) and the color 

 and texture of the older shoots, and of the branches and 



