OF RURAL GARDENING. SECT. x*< 



garden be thrown as much as possible into a single- 

 view, when meeting with new objects in our walks is 

 80 agreeable ? 



Hilly spots that are in view of the house should be 

 planted with firs, as pleasant noble looking trees, 

 and very hardy. Beech does well on high ground, 

 especially, if chalky. In low ground, not to men- 

 tion alders and that tribe, the birch, and even the 

 oak, should not be forgot, where wet does not 

 stand, 



About the house some shady walks ought always 

 to be provided, by thick planting, if not of trees, yet 

 of flowering shrubs, and evergreens, of which the 

 laurel will be found the most useful. Here should 

 be also a good portion of grass-plat, or lawn, so de- 

 lightful to the eye when neatly kept, also borders of 

 showy flowers, which if backed by any kind of fence, 

 it should be hid with evergreens, or at least with de- 

 ciduous shrubs, that the scene may be as much as 

 possible vivacious. If there is good room, single 

 trees of the fir kind, at due distances, are admirable 

 ornaments about a house, and clumps of shrubs all 

 of the same kind have a good effect : How beautiful 

 is the Weymouth pine ! 



Those who have much space of ground to decorate, 

 do w ; ell to plant trees and shrubs of every kind, as 

 enlarging the sources of amusement, and affording 

 opportunities for observation ; but if the allotment of 

 ground for this purpose is contracted, then, of course, 

 those only should be planted, which by their neat 

 foliage, natural symmetry, and gay flowers, may be 

 truly esteemed oniamcntaL They should be such 

 as strike the eye of persons in general, though they 

 have nothing; of singularity to engage the attention of 

 the curious in plants. It too often happens, that 

 good old sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers, are ex- 

 cluded for new ones, but if the latter are not more 



