144 SHRUBS AND TREES. 



iTipft cilates of any confiderable extent, they, 

 as well as fertile foils and fituations, for prin- 

 cipal ornamental and ufeful plantations in the 

 molt defirable fhrubs and trees, both deci- 

 duous and ever-green kinds, afford wafte 

 grounds, either in low and marfhy prcmiiTes, 

 or hilly and mountainous fituations, not cal- 

 culated for the culture of other vegetables ; 

 are often applicable to noble plantations of 

 trees, both for ufe, ornament, and for diver- 

 ilfying the refpeftive dillridls, and affording 

 iheker to others, &c. And that in general, 

 in grounds of fmaller or larger extent, plan- 

 tations of beautiful flowering fhrubs, and 

 other ornamental flirubs and trees, deciduous 

 and ever-green, difpofed in fhrubberies in 

 various diverfified compartments, and in 

 groves, thickets, clumps, walks, &c. in plea- 

 fure-grOunds, parks, fields, &c. are great em- 

 belliihments to the refpciSlixe divifions, as 

 intimatea in the general obiervations for th« 

 plan of the Pleaiure-ground, affording a vaft 

 fource of entertaining variety in their differ^mt 

 growths, foliage, flowers and fruit, &c. 



That for the above-mentioned different 

 Ihrubbery and tree plantations, there is a 

 great variety of feveral hundred different fpe- 

 cies and varieties of trees and fhrubs, confift- 

 ing of deciduous and ever-green kinds, cul- 

 tivated in the numerous nurfery-grounds in 

 the different parts of the kingdom for public 

 fupply, as may be required; and moil of the 

 principal forts may be readily raifed^in private 

 nurfenes, for fupplying the various planta- 

 tions 



