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sober hues. The remedy we seek is to be found in breadth 

 rather than in intensity of colour. " In further elucidation 

 of these views we are promised a series of papers from a 

 well-known correspondent." * 



OENAMENTAL PLANTING. 



[From " The Gardeners' Chronicle? August 27, i864,/. 819.] 



No. I. SPRING. 



I HAVE somewhere met with the remark that the poet 

 revels most in the beauties of spring, the painter in 

 those of autumn. The landscape gardener when selecting 

 trees should perhaps be conversant with and consider the 

 effect they produce at all seasons. Spring is the time of 

 promise in gardening, and I purpose in the present in- 

 stance to confine my remarks to that season. The 

 dominant features of tree scenery in spring are : 



1 . The outline of the trees. 



2. The colours of the flowers. 



3. The colours of the leaves. 



I. The outline of trees. From among the various forms 

 which trees assume, I may perhaps be permitted to 

 instance the following as clearly defined points of de- 

 parture spreading, round-headed, pyramidal, and weeping. 

 Not that it is intended to say that all trees are well 

 defined examples of one or other of these forms ; for it is 

 admitted that in many there is an absence of strongly 

 marked character, and that a tree may be neither perfectly 

 spreading, round-headed, pyramidal, nor weeping, but in 

 the intermediate forms will generally be found a dominant 

 habit which renders them easily referrible to one or other 

 of these divisions. 



* The last sentence was added by the editor. 



