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freshness of view both within and beyond them, and plants 

 of an uncommon kind may be Hberally introduced. In some 

 districts, certain sorts of trees and shrubs and flowers abound 

 and are met with in every place. They seem to have acquired 

 a local standing and to be distributed from one neighbor to 

 another, and are met with in every place. It will be well, 

 therefore, to break through these prescribed limits, and 

 select something altogether different. 



By giving a chosen tribe of plants the chief place in a gar- 

 den, originality is not unfrequently hit upon. The almost 

 total exclusion of deciduous plants will hsive a very marked 

 effect, if the evergreens be well selected, and those which 

 bear flowers predominate; otherwise they will be rather dull 

 in summer. Azaleas, or roses, or any other very showy class 

 of plants, which produce a great blaze of flowers, will, if not 

 too exclusively grown, contribute to the same end. 



16. Character. — As the result of a number of principles 

 judiciously combined and elaborated, a place should always 

 possess some more or less decided expression and tone; and, 

 as the character of a garden will usually attach itself in 

 great part to the owner or occupier, so that his own dis- 

 positions and tastes will be judged of by the kind of feeling 

 displayed in his garden, it becomes of consequence that 

 this point should be kept continually in view while laying 

 it out. 



A garden may be distinguished by its gayety of tone. This 

 will be principally produced during summer by a variety of 

 showy flowers, by masses of brilliant-flowering shrubs, by 

 standard and other roses, by a conspicuous flower garden, 

 and by a variety of purely summer decorations. The shrubs 

 and. low trees will be chiefly flowering ones; green-house 

 plants in flower will be freely placed about, or beds of them 

 provided, and everything will have an exotic air. In winter 



