Paet III. FORM AND COLOUR OF TREES. 365 



that all the trees which may group with it in the landscape 

 should be of any particular kind, there is no doubt that those 

 of vertical growth and dark colour offer a better contrast to the 

 horizontal lines of a stone house of Italian or Grecian style 

 than those of a rounder form ; and the horizontal lines of 

 that kind of house have a singularly good effect from con- 

 trast, when seen between the long vertical stems of stone 

 pines or of a group of old Scotch firs. Such contrasts may 

 be judiciously introduced here and there, even if not abso- 

 lutely necessary ; and due attention to the different growth of 

 trees and to the colour of their foliage is a very important con- 

 sideration in their arrangement. And there is no doubt 

 that the upright poplar, too often despised, has an admirable 

 effect as a contrast to the long level line of a meadow, and 

 in other positions where a vertical line is required ; as the 

 dark hues of certain evergreen trees, the copper beach, and 

 others of coloured foliage, tend greatly to the beauty of the 

 grounds when properly introduced. 



But I do not enter into the question of laying out grounds : 

 — for these I refer to Kepton and others ; nor do I treat of 

 those large terrace gardens such as are seen in Italy and 

 France attached to spacious villas, as at Frascati, the Villa 

 d'Este, and others : I confine my remarks to gardens which 

 depend for their arrangement on beds in formal geometrical 

 patterns ; and of these I shall give a few examples, with 

 the general arrangement of their colours, and the names 

 of flowers best suited to form their various designs. 



Numerous indeed are the patterns which might be given 

 for the geometrical garden ; and the arrangement of the 

 garden itself is also susceptible of very great variety. Nor 

 will they fail to suggest themselves to any one who occu- 

 pies himself with the subject; and many maybe found in 

 works on gardens, as in Loudon's "Encyclopaedia of Gar- 

 dening," in the "Book of the Garden" by Mcintosh, (Part 



