So Theory and Practise in Laiidscape-Gardening. 



It is in a proper distribution of trees and shrubs and of the other orna- 

 mental parts, but mainly of trees and shrubs, that the secret of the arrange- 

 ment of a place consists. 



I employ the word " secret " without attaching the real meaning to the 

 word. After all, it is a secret only for the uninitiated ; and I will Xxs to dis- 

 close it : but I repeat, it is in this part of the art alone that an artist must 

 be well informed ; and, without it, he will be unable to do any thing satis- 

 factorily. 



With a good knowledge of trees and shrubs, guides may be established 

 by ever}-body in forming what I may call scales, or tables of the elements, 

 which are in reality the colors with which to paint the picture. 



Thus scales and tables are formed by bringing together first a complete 

 list of all the trees and shrubs which may be employed to advantage in the 

 place, considering the location, climate, and qualit}-. 



This catalogue, including deciduous as well as evergreen trees and shrubs, 

 is not to be put together in alphabetical order, but to commence with the 

 lowest or dwarfest kinds ; continuing gradually through the middle-sized 

 ones up to the tallest sorts, or vice versa. 



Odier lists will then have to be extracted from that first one by bringing 

 together all the evergreens in one particular list, and also the deciduous 

 kinds in another. 



Then lists on which trees of peculiar forms, of particular foliage, if 

 large or small ; of trees of early spreading or with late foliage ; of trees of 

 upright, horizontal, or weeping fonns ; of dark-colored or light-colored fo- 

 liage \ of dusky or glossy foliage • of dense or light character, — must be 

 brought together, but each list always in order by sizes. 



According to the character of the planting to be done, particular lists of 

 shrubs and of trees for massing, for groves, and for single planting, are not 

 without use, and will frequently prevent errors. 



Trees and shrubs are the colors to work or pvaint with in landscape- 

 gardening ; but instead of mixing the various graduations of the required 

 shades and tints from a limited number of primitive colors, as the painter 

 has to do, the landscape-gardener, like the workman in a manufacture of 

 Gobelin tapestr}-, has to have ever}- one of his shades or tints already mixed 

 and prepared, nicely laid near at hand, so as to find what he wants, and 



