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should be planted with native herbaceous plants, and dwarf 

 shrubs ; on the margin of the grass plat, a serpentine, or 

 some well contrived walk, bordered with shrubbery, leading 

 to a rockery, of a semicircular form on the north side, and 

 almost straight on the south. A rockery so situated might 

 be planted with various perennial and annual plants, and 

 dwarf shrubs, which would there be in a natural aspect and 

 location. On the circular side of the rockery, divided by a 

 walk, a broad belt might be planted with different kinds of 

 native shrubs, as Rhododendrons, Kalmias, Azelias^ Andro- 

 medaS) and Spireas. 



In some convenient place near the rockery, a rustic arbor 

 may be very properly placed, and covered with native vines 

 and creepers, for the accommodation of visiters, and the ju- 

 nior members of the family who wish to study botany. The 

 plants should be properly labelled, with the botanical name 

 on one side of a neat tally, and the native state on the other. 

 For the better accommodation of those who collect native 

 plants, they should be furnished with " NuttalVs Genera of 

 the Plants of North America" a work which, in a very 

 concise and correct manner, gives the habit, time of flowering, 

 and location, of all native plants, and should be in possession 

 of every lover of botany. 



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