TREES IN THE GARDEN 257 



all the cold weather is past, and therefore she is called the 

 wisest of all others.' ^ 



Some may think that of the trees I have recom- 

 mended a few only are suitable for all parts of Eng- 

 land, while others are only fit for the warm sheltered 

 situations of the south. But I believe they are all 

 perfectly hardy anywhere if planted in proper situa- 

 tions, and a little attended to when young. I fancy 

 that our forefathers were wiser than we are in their 

 choice of situation for tender trees and shrubs. We 

 are in the habit of putting them in the warmest corners 

 we can find, while they chose the coldest. Leonard 

 Mascall was a very practical gardener, and in 1590 he 

 published A BooTce of the Arte and Manner, How to Plant 

 and Gra^e all Smis of Trees, etc., and this is his advice : — 



'Commonly the most part of trees doe love Sunne at 

 Noone, and yet the South Winde (or vent d'aual) is very 

 contrary against their iiature, and specially the almon tree, the 

 Abricote, the Mulberie, the Figge tree, the Pomegranate tree.' 



I am sure there is much in this. It is quite certain 



that all Japanese trees like shade and a north aspect ; 



and the finest and most fruitful old mulberry-tree 



that I have ever seen is at Rochester, growing in a 



corner where it looks to the north and east, and is 



thoroughly protected from the south and west. 



1 In the P. B. version of the Psalms 'the mulberry-trees were 

 destroyed with the frost ' — but the translation is wrong ; the tree 

 named is the Sycomore. 



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