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We can only lament the meagre list of trees which con- 

 stitute the whole number generally planted. A dozen or 

 two forest trees, and the same number of shrubs, appear to 

 embrace a larger part of such as are found even on the 

 extensive grounds of gentlemen of taste and wealth ; but 

 the fault is not theirs ; it lies with the nurserymen ; and 

 unless they are continually striving to secure all the new 

 trees that are yearly introduced, they cannot expect to have 

 a demand for such novelties. In our present volume we 

 shall make an attempt to describe familiarly a number of 

 the finest trees, shrubs and evergreens, remarkable either 

 for their foliage, flowers or fruit, suitable for planting 

 villa residences. Mr. Downing, in his Treatise on Land- 

 scape Gardening, has described several trees, but the list 

 does not include but a portion of such as are adapted to the 

 purpose. 



The introduction of the Deodar cedar, the Garrya elip- 

 tica, and the Paulownfa imperialis, must be looked upon as 

 placing within our reach some of the most splendid produc- 

 tions of the vegetable world. 



Rural Architecture. 

 Rural architecture, within a year or two, has attracted 

 much attention, and there is a very perceptible change in 

 the style of many of the villa residences recently erected. Mr. 

 Downing's work on Cottage Residences^ reviewed in our 

 last volume, page 414, will do much to aid in the discrim- 

 ination of a taste for building. It is as easy to adopt some 

 fixed style in the erection of a house, so as to have it form 

 a harmonious whole, as to make it an assemblage of incon- 

 gruous parts. A slight expense incurred in securing the 

 ai4 of a good architect, is all that will be necessary to in- 

 sure those proportions which are essential to render a build- 

 ing beautiful throughout. In the vicinity of Boston several 

 handsome cottages have been erected the past year, and at 

 a future time we shall endeavor to give engravings of such 

 as we consider good models for building. 



Commercial Gardens. 



After the very general notice of gardens and gardening, 



which we gave in the early part of the last volume, being 



the results of our tour as far south as Washington, little 



will be left for us to say on this head. Few or no new 



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