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another dealer, "which also, in their turn, 

 must follow them." 



5. The number of species and varieties is 

 now so great, that a fine collection of trees 

 may be had in even a piece of ground with 

 one uniform soil. Variety is generally pleas- 

 ing ; and the smallest lot might as well have 

 its half-dozen trees of different kinds, as in 

 one monotonous sameness. If one tree only 

 be wanted, I prefer it to be different from 

 one's neighbor's adjoining. In addition to 

 the charm of variety, which is added to the 

 pleasure of the shade, emulation has here an 

 innocent outlet for its course, which will not 

 fail to bring its gratifying reward. 



6. One objection to variety, so far as 

 shade trees are concerned, is its cost. A 

 nurseryman can afford to sell a quantity of 

 one thing for less, than for small lots of dif- 

 ferent ones. But, on reflection, few would 

 be willing to forego the pleasure of that 

 variety which is one of the charms of natu- 

 ral beauty one of the means by which we 

 contrast that which is superior with that 

 which is beneath and rest satisfied with the 

 only change brought by the seasons, and the 



