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inhabited monasteries, are the works of man, 

 with which it should be blended. It is also 

 an admirable cover for walls and other fences 

 which surround the shrubbery ; and it may 

 be properly used to ornament the lodges 

 where the mansion is either in the castle or 

 Gothic style. 



We have often seen it give a picturesque 

 appearance to cottages ; but we also prefer 

 to see a white cottage through the branches 

 of green trees, than to look on a green-clad 

 cottage in a naked plain. Plantations within 

 view of the mansion, or the walks that 

 surround it, are generally laid out more 

 for effect than with an idea of the pro- 

 fit to be derived from the timber ; and in 

 such situations, particularly where evergreens 

 do not abound, the ivy may be cultivated so 

 as to add considerably to the beauty of the 

 prospect, and even within the boundaries of the 

 shrubbery, where other evergreens have been 

 destroyed by the drip or shade of lofty trees, 

 which should always form a back-ground, 

 the ivy may be suffered both to cover the 

 surface and climb the trunks to great advan- 

 tage. When trained to a stake, and suffered to 

 form a head, it becomes one of the most or- 

 namental of all the evergreens ; for the sin- 

 gular complication of its pliable branches, and 



