424 Reviews. — Mdress by J. E. Teschemacher. 



the ingenuity of the horticulturist here can easily find a substitute; 

 but to produce or to imitate our glorious sunlight, is beyond the art 

 of those of many other countries. 



The important subject of ornamental gardening has not 

 escaped notice; and it must be regretted, that the author did 

 not extend his views on this subject, so interesting to all: we 

 could have wished that he had devoted a considerable portion 

 of the address to an attempt to impress upon the minds of 

 gentlemen who possess country residences, and owners of 

 estates, the great value which might be given to their proper- 

 ty by a liberal planting, and judicious selection, of ornamental 

 trees and shrubs. It is this particular feature which gives the 

 cottages and villas of England that picturesque appearance so 

 universally admired. But, beyond the beauty of such planta- 

 tions, how necessary are they in another point of view — as 

 affording shelter from the bleak winds which sweep across 

 some portions of the country, and shade from the burning sun 

 of our clear and unclouded skies. Every individual who 

 possesses a spot of ground, should not neglect to plant trees, 

 whether it is improved or unimproved — if improved, it will 

 be rendered so much the more ornamental, and if unimproved, 

 it will add more than double the expense of planting to the 

 value of the ground. 



I trust, also, that in a few years attention will be more directed to 

 the exhibition of true taste, whether in laying out the small garden 

 plot around the house, or in more extensive ornamental grounds. 

 For the cost is the same, whether the labor of planting and making 

 walks be expended in a manner consonant to true taste or otherwise; 

 and the principles of this true taste are extremely simple and easy 

 of application. Had time permitted, I should like to have laid down 

 a few of these principles, and also to have said a few words on the 

 subject so essential to landscape gardening, of harmony, which 

 should be studied with an artist's eye, both in the plantation of 

 masses and lines of trees, with regard to their mode of growth and 

 foliage, as well as in the arrangement of the colors of the flower 

 garden. I must also leave untouched another subject of great im- 

 portance; I mean the scientific arrangement of trees and plants in 

 gardens, an object which, when attained, not only increases immeas- 

 urably the interest of a garden, but leads even those unscientific 

 minds, which are strongly imbued with a love of order and arrange- 

 ment, to enjoy and delight in the beautiful domain of the vegetable 

 kingdom. 



The importance of horticultural publications, which have 

 undoubtedly tended more to the spread of a taste for garden- 

 ing than all other means combined, does not escape the notice 



