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life farther and farther into the spring and summer. Its -windings 

 will be marked by greener grass and more flourishing young ti'ces, 

 and by the wild flowers which will have gone back to their native 

 haunts, and the eye will glide pleasantly along its course to a 

 river, or till it is lost in the distance. The outline of the hill will 

 be changed from a tame, monotonous curve, into one fringed and 

 broken with inequalities, becoming every year more decided. The 

 hill itself will become taller, wilder and larger ; and the forest, of 

 which only the nearer side will be seen, will stretch in imagina- 

 tion over distant plains and hills beyond the limits of vision. The 

 stream will have resumed its never-ceasing course, and the naiad 

 her continuous song. The fences Avill have become long since 

 unnecessary and will have disappeared, and the sun's light will 

 lie upon a sheltered field by the edge of the wood. Pains have been 

 taken, in planting this hill, to avoid straight lines as the limit, and 

 to let deep angles, securing sheltered lots favorable for tillage, 

 cut into the forest. This, as the trees come to maturity, will allow 

 the eye to penetrate into these pleasant nooks between woods on 

 either hand. 



The kinds of trees best suited to forest planting, will depend on 

 the object the planter has in view. If that be ship-timber, for a 

 future generation, oaks, pines and larches will be planted, native 

 and foreign. If his object be to furnish materials for domestic 

 architecture, he will plant trees of the various tribes of pines. If 

 it be materials for furniture and the arts, he will plant maples, 

 birches, walnuts and hickories, lindens, alders, ashes and chest- 

 nuts, beeches, willows, cherry trees and tulip trees. If his object 

 be the beauty of the landscape, he will plant or sow all the species 

 of our native trees, shrubs, climbers and under-shrubs ; — oaks, 

 ashes, tuUp trees, chestnuts, birches, with various kinds of pines and 

 hemlocks upon the heights ; elms, plane trees, pines, and some of 

 the poplars on low hills or parts of the plain to which seeming ele- 

 vation is to be given ; lindens and walnuts, the black, the European 

 and the butternut, upon the slopes ; alders and willows, tupelos 

 and river poplars, the red and the black birch, the white cedar 

 and arbor vit?e, along streams ; the cherry trees and thorns, the 

 several species of cornus, locusts, robinias, gleditzias and acacias, 

 ciders, wild pears and wild apple trees, and whatever else has 

 showy blossoms, along the edges most fully presented to view ; 

 birches, hornbeams and hop-hornbeams, the nettle tree and the 

 hackberry, elms of all kinds, poplars, native and foreign, beeches 

 and ashes, pines and other evergreens, maples and oaks, every- 

 where. 



Important questions, and worthy of careful and mature consid- 

 eration, are, what trees are best suited to ornament the lawn, — 

 what best to be near a dwelling-house, where a family wants one 

 tree, or a few, for beauty and shade, but has not room for many ; 



