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best ; hence all small gardens are laid out in this style in- 

 voluntarily by those who have no preconceived ideas on the 

 subject, doubtless from an innate feeling that it is most suit- 

 able to the boundary fence. Another class of persons who 

 know just enough of gardening to be aware that there are two 

 styles, and who have been accustomed to hear the ancient 

 style decried by all the authors who have written on garden- 

 ing since the time of Horace Walpole, look at the straight 

 walks of their small walled gardens as deformities, and regret 

 that they cannot, for want of room, indulge in that style 

 which alone they have been taught to esteem as beautiful. 

 Such ideas are entirely the result of prejudice in favor of 

 opinions expressed by men considered as authorities, and who, 

 at the time they wrote, were so much captivated by the 

 novelty of the irregular style that they could not allow them- 

 selves to do justice to any other. Mr. Loudon concludes by 

 giving his opinion that the ancient style is equal in merit to the 

 modern one, and possessing quite as much claim as the latter 

 to be considered natural and in good taste. In fact the geo- 

 metric style may be said to be the more natural of the two, 

 since the first attempts of rude nations, who are governed by 

 their natural impulses, are always marked by symmetry and 

 regularity, in their forms and combinations. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SELECT APPLES. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



It is with considerable caution that Ave introduce descrip- 

 tions of the different varieties of apples ; so much confusion 

 still exists, that except with the well known and tolerably 

 familiar sorts, it is very difficult to decide which are new, 

 and which are older and less known. It is our object in this 

 article to have our descriptions and figures correct, and it is for 

 this reason that we have not been able to give an account of 

 a larger number in our present volume ; as our specimen trees 

 are now, after a long time, coming into bearing, we hope to 



