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ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF ORNAMENTAL TREES AND 

 SHRUBS IN NORTH AMERICA. 



[From Hovey's Mag. of Horticulture.] 



December, 1835. 



IT is remarkable, that notwithstanding the rapid progress which 

 horticulture is making in the United States, so little attention 

 is paid to the planting of ornamental trees, with a view to the embel- 

 lishment of our country residences. The magnificent parks of Eng- 

 land have been long and justly admired, as constituting one of the 

 most beautiful features of that highly cultivated country ; and al- 

 though the horticultural creations of our more limited means, may 

 never equal in extent and grandeur some of \hose of the aristocracy 

 of Europe, yet every person of cultivated mind, is aware how beau- 

 tiful the hand of taste can render even very limited scenes, by the 

 proper application of the principles and materials necessary to men- 

 tal pleasure and gratification. 



Considered in a single point of view, what an infinite variety of 

 beauty there is in a tree itself ! Every part is admirable, from the 

 individual beauty of its leaves, to its grand effect as a whole. Who 

 has not witnessed in some favorite landscape the indescribable charm 

 thrown over the whole scene by a single tree ? Perhaps a huge 

 giant, whose massy trunk and wide outstretched arms have been 

 the production of ages ; or the more graceful form of another whose 

 delicate foliage reflects the sunbeam, and trembles with the slightest 

 breeze that passes over it. There is no monotony in nature even 

 in trees, every season has its own charms. Spring, the season of 

 renewed life, witnesses the rush of the newly imbibed sap the 



