



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



HE great desideratum sought to be realized in the 

 composition of a Landscape Garden, is by tlie tasteful 

 and artistic grouping of Trees, to produce as much 

 variety as will consistently harmonise with the locale 

 to be improved, and contiguous scenery. To perform this beautifully, and 

 without disparaging i:iatural laws of unit}', require a talent cultivated to 

 the most delicate sense of discrimination. An inherent love for the beati 

 ideal in nature and the fine arts. Most unfortunately for the budding 

 taste which is rapidly expanding foi= rural homes in this country, our pro- 

 i<'jasional landscape teachers are only in rare instances, qualified to impart 

 the knowledge imperative to the creation of the verit^ibly and naturally 

 picturesque. 



The refined and least sordid of the mercantile community in large cities, 

 anticipate largely for their dolcefar niente in declining years, from the de- 

 lights and pleasure inspired by a " Country Home." This object is the 

 cynosure of their ambition, and the incentive to speculative transactiona. 

 These men lavish extravagant suras in the accomplishment of their longr 

 fostered wishes. The result in a majority of cases is a home — a building 

 with the prominent features of some peculiar architecture, fearfully embla- 

 Koning every inequality of surface presented for ornamental consideration. 

 This is termed by the gentlemen of labarynthian architectural lore " Ornate 

 Expression.'" With him ornateucss is the samtwi bonum, the poetry of 



