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And amply let it flow, that nature wears 



On her throned eminence : where'er she takes 



Her horizontal march, pursue her step 



With sweeping train of forest, hill to hill 



Unite with prodigality of shade. 



There plant thy elm, thy chestnut ; nourish there 



Those sapling oaks, which, at Britannia's call. 



May heave their trunks mature into the main, 



And float, the bulwarks of her liberty. 



But if the fir, give it its station meet ; 



Place it an outguard to th' assailing north. 



To shield the infant scions, till, possessed 



Of native strength, they learn alike to scorn 



The blast and their protectors." 



We shall not enter into the details of the author, concern- 

 ing artificial water, believing that the proper course to be 

 pursued by our people is to preserve their natural streams 

 from drying up, by not allowing the mountains and moun- 

 tainous elevations to be deprived of their wood. 



The fourth and last book treats of buildings and all arti- 

 ficial ornaments. By these is meant not only every aid which 

 art borrows from architecture, but those smaller pieces of 

 separate scenery appropriated either to ornament or use, 

 which do not make a necessary part of the whole ; and which, 

 if admitted into it, would frequently occasion a littleness ill 

 suiting with that unity and simplicity which should ever be 

 principally regarded in an extensive pleasure ground. The 

 author remarks in a note that '• all adventitious ornaments of 

 sculpture ought either to be accompanied with a proper back- 

 ground, or introduced as a part of architectural scenery ; and 

 that when, on the contrary, they are placed in open lawns or 

 parterres, according to the old mode, they become mere scare- 

 crows." 



CHEAP HOUSES FOR GROWING PEACHES AND VINES. 



BY J. DE JONGHE, BRUSSELS. 



The cultivation of fruit trees in pots is yearly attracting 

 more attention, especially the peach and nectarine, which in 

 our variable climate so often fail to produce a crop in the 



