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anist and the gardener. The latter, therefore, embracing, as it does, 

 more than one kind of beauty, stands higher in the scale of art, than the 

 former. Rural, or natural, landscape is characterized by being rural, or 

 natiu-al, as contrasted with the artificial scenery by which it is, or may be, 

 siuTounded, in the given locality : it becomes, therefore, only an art, 

 when it is known to be the work of man. To us it appears that, when 

 the terms designatmg these four styles are properly miderstood, so as to 

 be readily applied to artificial scenery, by gardeners, it will be of essen- 

 tial service to them, in laying out grounds : it will prevent them from 

 endeavoring to bring together, in the same garden or scene, beauties, 

 which are incompatible with each other : for example, the gardenesque 

 and the picturesque, in the same shrubbeiy, or on the same lawn ; or, in 

 other words, handsome single specimens and picturesque groups : or 

 from attempting to combine the gardenesque with the natural ; in other 

 words, from mixing poitious of what may be called highly refined scen- 

 ery, composed of exotic trees and plants, with fine turf and gravel, with 

 portions of the ordinary nature of the locality. The mtroduction of her- 

 baceous flowers among trees and shrubs is a subject connected with 

 landscape-gardening, which, at present, is not at all understood by prac- 

 tical meii. When herbaceous flowers are introduced in pictm^esque 

 scenery, they ought to be allowed to run wild, and the sm-face on which 

 they are planted should never, in the slightest degree, be cultivated ; but 

 when they are introduced into gardenesque scenery, it must only he in 

 situations where tlie particular kind of plant will thrive and come to per- 

 fection ; and the ground about each plant must be highly cultivated. In 

 the rm-al style, no foreign plants whatever, and no marks of culture, must 

 appear." 



In the department of arboriculture, considerable has been done ; 

 many new arboretums have been begun, and others partially com- 

 pleted ; the taste for planting them is upon the increase, and no 

 place of any distinction will long be considered complete without 

 one. We wish that this love of hardy trees and shrubs was more 

 common among our amateur gardeners, and gentlemen, possessing 

 fine residences in the vicinity of our large cities. The taste for ex- 

 otics, which need protection during our severe winters, and various 

 florists' flowers, which require much care, has rapidly increased 

 within a few years, and it will also, we most sincerely hope, con- 

 tinue to, for years to come. Still, we would not have it exclude a 

 love for ornamental plantations of hardy trees and shrubs, collect- 

 ed from all parts of our country, and from foreign climes of the 

 same temperature, or where such can be found as will be hardy 

 when transferred to our gardens. The former is a taste which, 

 though perhaps more general, because the objects are more rare, is 

 certainly a much less refined as well as a less pleasing one. We 

 stop to admire the modest violet or the gorgeous tuUp, while we 

 pass a humble shrub or the majestic oak, as a common object. 

 The former are beautiful, while their delicate or magnificent blos- 

 soms appear ; but as soon as these are gone, their foliage presents 

 little for admiration. How different is it with the latter! In flower or 

 out of flower, they are ever interesting. The bursting of the buds in 

 the spring, — the opening of the blossoms, — the mature foliage, — 

 the ripening fruit, — and, in autumn, the gay and varied colors of 



