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beyond the belief of the uninitiated who has seen the 

 bare site before it was planted. 



To speak generally, there should be no need of 

 apology for applying the most subtle art in the dis- 

 posal of trees and shrubs, and in the formation of the 

 ground to receive them. " All Art" as Loudon truly 

 says (speaking upon this very point), " to be acknow- 

 ledged as Art, must be avowed." This is the case in 

 the fine arts there is no attempt to conceal art in 

 music, poetry, painting, or sculpture, none in archi- 

 tecture, and none in geometrical-gardening. 



In modern landscape-gardening, practised as a 

 fine art, many of the more important beauties and 

 effects produced by the artist depend on the use he 

 makes of foreign trees and shrubs ; and, personally, 

 one is ready to forgive Brown much of his vile 

 vandalism in old-fashioned gardens for the use he 

 makes of cedars, pines, planes, gleditschias, robinias, 

 deciduous cypress, and all the foreign hardy trees 

 and shrubs that were then to his hand. 



Loudon every inch a fine gardener, true lineal de- 

 scendant of Bacon in the art of gardening recom- 

 mends in his " Arboretum" (pp. ji, 12) the heading 

 down of large trees of common species, and the graft- 

 ing upon them foreign species of the same genus, as is 

 done in orchard fruit-trees. Hawthorn hedges, for 

 instance, are common everywhere; why not graft some 

 of the rare and beautiful sorts of tree thorns, and in- 

 tersperse common thorns between them ? There are 

 between twenty and thirty beautiful species and 

 varieties of thorn in our nurseries. Every gardener 



