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which is that of a pyramid, and the yew tree 

 and pieca being more proper for the variety 

 of forms of which they are susceptible, to 

 adorn gardens, cypress has lately been ne- 

 glected, and the other two trees been more 

 planted." Thus it is evident that the cypress 

 was driven out of the garden by the shears, 

 whose business it was to disfigure nature, by 

 transforming evergreens into urns, sugar- 

 loaves, extinguishers, and a thousand other 

 whimsical devices, as suited the taste of the 

 owner, or the ability of their gardeners, who 

 have not been improperly called evergreen 

 tailors. But the cypress may now safely re- 

 turn to its station in our plantations, since 

 the shears have left the grove, and are now as 

 busily employed in disfiguring the human 

 shape, as they were formerly in mutilating 

 vegetable beauties. 



There is no part of ornamental planting 

 more difficult than the distribution of ever- 

 green trees, which are either the most perma- 

 nent beauties of the grove, or the most gloomy 

 features, accordingly as they are dispersed. 

 A plantation composed entirely of trees 

 that are not deciduous, has an aspect so 

 sombre, that the name of nevergreen may be 

 more properly applied to them than that of 

 evergreen ; yet they cheer our winter scenes 

 most beautifully when happily blended with 



