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colours, to be kept remote from the flower borders ; 

 the Persian, as it grows low, may be nearer, and 

 the Siberian, lately introduced, having a better leaf 

 than the Persian and a richer profusion of blossoms : 

 laburnums, which cost nothing, growing up every- 

 where like ash seedlings, must not be unlimited, as 

 they show too much yellow, but appear well at in- 

 tervals towards the outer boundary the seed is 

 poisonous: a purple beech may have a place where 

 it can get up as a tree; in like maner, a few ser- 

 vices, the under side of the leaf, like frosted silver, 

 being most beautiful in a summer wind; and the 

 walnut, worthy to be preferred for its sweet scent 

 and fruit, perhaps, some future year; the dwarf 

 almond may be admitted to the verge of the walk, 

 as it rises to no height: its blossom is that of the 

 peach, but its fruit is never seen except in low situa- 

 tions; and the tree-peony cannot have too good a 

 place; it is, as yet, scarce and costly, and of slow 

 growth; near a south wall it thrives well, at least 

 three hundred feet above the level of the sea, and is 

 the most gorgeous of all shrub flowers. 



Nothing more can be done for the comfort and 

 beauty of this department without due attention to 

 the foundation of walks: and judging by what may 

 often be seen, as well as by the trouble of cleaning 

 those that are ill made, few things connected with 

 the garden are worthy of a more particular notice. 

 In making walks amongst shrubs and flowers, dry- 

 ness and variety of edging are the chief things to 

 be promoted there not being here, as along a fruit 



