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At the tipper end they should have a 

 sharp slanting cut, with a bill-hook, 

 and threaded with the slope towards 

 the tree. The motion of the tree will 

 not in any degree he impeded ; and the 

 hark cannot he injured let the wind 

 blow as it may, for the guard moves 

 freely with the tree in every direction. 



TKEES are a chief material in land- 

 scape gardening. The varieties hi their 

 shapes, says Mr. Whateley, may be 

 reduced to the following heads. Some 

 thick with branches and foliage have 

 almost an appearance of solidity, as 

 the beech, the elm, the lilac, and se- 

 ringa. Others thin of boughs and of 

 leaves, seem light and airy, as the ash 

 and the abele, the common arbor 

 vitse and the tamarisk. 



There is a mean betwixt the two ex- 

 tremes, very distinguishable from both, 

 as in the bladder-nut, and the ashen- 

 leaved maple. They may again be 

 divided into those whose branches 

 begin from the ground, and those 

 which shoot up in a stem before their 

 branches begin. Trees which have 

 some, and not much clear stem, as 

 several of the firs, belong to the former 

 class ; but a very short stem will rank as 

 a shrub, such as the althaea in the latter. 



Of those, the branches of which begin 

 from the ground, some rise in a conical 

 figure, as the larch, the cedar of Le- 

 banon, and the holly. Some swell out 

 in the middle of their growth, and di- 

 minish at both ends, as the Weymouth 

 pine, the mountain ash, and the lilac ; 

 and some are irregular and bushy from 

 the top to the bottom, as the evergreen 

 oak, the Virginian cedar, and Guelder 

 rose. There is a great difference be- 

 tween one whose base is very large, and 

 another whose base is very small, in 

 proportion to its height; the cedar of 

 Lebanon and the cypress are instances 

 of such a difference, yet in both the 

 branches begin from the ground. 



The heads of those which shoot up 

 into a stem, before their branches begin, 

 sometimes are slender cones, as of 

 many firs ; sometimes are broad cones, 

 as of the horse-chesnut ; sometimes 

 they are round, as of the stone pine, 

 and most sorts of fruit-trees ; and 

 sometimes irregular, as of the elm. 



Of this kind there are many consider- 

 able varieties. 



The branches of some grow hori- 

 zontally, as of the oak. In others they 

 fall, as in the lime, and the acacia ; and 

 in some of these last they incline ob- 

 liquely, as in many of the firs ; in some 

 they hang directly down, as in the 

 weeping willow. 



Some are of a dark green, as the 

 horse-chesnut, and the yew ; some of a 

 light green, as the lime, and the laurel ; 

 some of a green tinged with brown, as 

 the Virginian cedar; some of a green 

 tinged with white, as the abele, and 

 the sage-tree ; and some of a green 

 tinged with yellow, as the ashen-leaved 

 maple, and the Chinese arbor -vitce. 

 The variegated plants, also, are gene- 

 rally entitled to be classed with the 

 white or the yellow, by the strong 

 tincture of the one or the other of 

 those colours on their leaves. 



The fall of the leaf is the time to 

 learn the species, the order, and the 

 proportion of tints, which blended will 

 form beautiful masses ; and, on the 

 other hand, to distinguish those which 

 are incompatible near together. The 

 peculiar beauty of the tints of red can- 

 not then escape observation, and the 

 want of them throughout the summer 

 months must be regretted; but the 

 want, though it cannot perfectly, may 

 partially be supplied, for plants have a 

 permanent and an accidental colour. 

 The permanent is always some shade 

 of green, but any other may be the 

 accidental colour; and there is none 

 which so many circumstances concur 

 to produce as a red. It is assumed in 

 succession by the bud, the blossom, 

 the berry, the bark, and the leaf. 

 Sometimes it profusely overspreads, at 

 other times it dimly tinges the plant, 

 and a reddish- green is generally the 

 hue of those plants on which it lasts 

 long or frequently returns. 



Admitting this, at least for many 

 months in the year, among the charac- 

 teristic distinctions, a large piece of 

 red -green, with a narrow edging of 

 dark-green, along the further side of 

 it, and beyond that, a piece of light- 

 green, still larger than the first, will be 

 found to compose a beautiful mass. 



