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decay rather than of renewed life, — it is yet the time when 

 more can be accomplished than at any other season. Let the 

 ground, when planting is contemplated, be well and thor- 

 oughly prepared, cither by snbsoiling, if on a large scale, or 

 by trenching if smaller. Let it be well drained, for a damp 

 situation is destructive to most trees. Make your selection 

 of trees with a due regard to the locality, whether high or 

 low, wet or dry, exposed or sheltered. Let them be of mod- 

 erate rize. Do not omit to enrich the soil. Plant carefully, 

 and fail not to afford due protection to the roots the first 

 season. 



If the work is set about with a determination to do it 

 thoroughly, without regard to cost, — and it is of no use to 

 proceed in any other way. — the result will show that you 

 have not labored in vain, but have accomplished that which 

 will be a life-long source of enjoyment and delight. 



THE LITERATURE OF GARDENING. 



BY WILSON FLAGG. 



No. IX. Works of Rev. William Gilpin. 

 It would be impossible, in the course of an essay of seven 

 or eight pages, to do justice to so voluminous a writer on 

 Landscape as the Rev. Wm. Gilpin. We shall only attempt 

 to present the reader with a general specimen of his views, 

 which were written without reference to the practical art of 

 landscape gardening, but chiefly for the entertainment and 

 instruction of men of taste, and amateurs in the art of paint- 

 ing. He thinks that in the variety of its picturesque beau- 

 ties, England exceeds most other countries, though in other 

 particular species of landscape it may probably be excelled. 

 Switzerland may exceed it in the beauty of its valleys, Ger- 

 many in its river views, and Italy in its lake scenes. But 

 England exhibits more variety of hill, and dale, and level 

 ground than is anywhere to be seen on so small a compass. 

 Its rivers assume every character, — ditFusive, winding, and 



