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[Fig. 18. Garden From of Cliesbunl Collage. 



lessen the force of it, as future appearances will, he thinks, prove 



W. H." 



The trees and shrubs on the lawn are almost all disposed in the garden- 

 esque manner ; that is, so that each individual plant may assume its natural 

 shape and habit of growth. The masses are also chiefly planted in the 

 same style ; and, as the trees and shrubs advance in growth, they are cut 

 in, or thinned out ; so that each individual, if separated from the mass to 

 which it belongs, and considered by itself alone, shall be a handsome plant. 

 At the same time, in order to produce as much variety as possible, the pic- 

 turesque style of planting, in which trees and shrubs are so closely group- 

 ed together as partially to injure each other's growth, occasionally occurs, 

 for the sake of producing variety. With the exception of the pines and firs, 

 the other trees have been selected more for their picturesque effect and 

 variety of foliage, than for their botanical interest. Among these are the 

 Scotch pine for its darkness ; the Populus angulata for its large leaves, 

 and for its property of preserving these till destroyed by severe frost, long 

 before which all the other poplars have become naked ; the A'cer macro- 

 phyllum, for its large leaves ; the Montpelier maple, for its small ones ; 

 the Negundo /raxinifdlium, for its green-barked shoots ; the American 

 oaks, for the singular variety in form and colour of their foliage ; the catal- 



