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tree scenery is green, varying in shades, but still green. 

 This is as it should be, for no other colour in nature is so 

 agreeable to the eye. Let us then take this colour as the 

 ground work of our operations, and retain its ascendancy, 

 but let us vary and increase the pictorial effect of the 

 landscape by a more liberal introduction of other colours. 



Every domain should be in itself a picture, or rather a 

 series of skilfully united pictures. 



No. II. SUMMER. 

 [From ''The Gardener J Chronicle? September yd 1864,^. 844.] 



WHATEVER may be the beauty of trees in spring, there 

 is an incompleteness attending it the incompleteness of 

 progress ; it is not until the arrival of summer, when the 

 leaves have attained their full size, that trees appear in 

 full dress, and produce that depth of light and shade in 

 which the lover of nature finds so much pleasure. 



If we seek to produce variety through the diversity in 

 form of the leaves, we shall find no difficulty in doing 

 so. There are the needle-shaped, of which the Pines, Firs, 

 and Junipers are examples. The small-leaved, which in- 

 clude such trees as the Oak, the Elm, the Beech ; the large 

 leaved, to which belong the Catalpa and Paulownia ; and 

 the compound-leaved, grand examples of which are met 

 with in the Ailantus, Kolreuteria, &c. 



But the coloiir of the leaves in summer is the most 

 fertile source of variety. There are light green for 

 example, Taxodium distichum, and Gleditschia ; dark 

 green Fraxinus crispa and Castanea vesca; purple 

 Beech, Elm, and Sycamore ; yellow variegated Turkey 

 Oak, Ash, and Sycamore ; white Acer negundo varie- 

 gatum and Silver Poplar. I know of no trees so beautiful 

 in the landscape in summer as the two latter, on account 

 of the idea of coolness they suggest by the glitter of their 

 white leaves. The Aspen, too, is desirable at the same 

 season, the ceaseless play of its foliage disclosing a breeze 



