SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDEN'S. ClIAP- 





CHAPTER VII. 



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The formation of Shrubberies and Flower Gardens; and the 

 Propagation and Cultivation of the several sorts of Shrubs 

 and Flowers. 



311. ON this part of my subject it is not agreeable to 

 my plan to be very minute, except as to the several 

 kinds of shrubs and flowers, the lists of which I shall 

 make as complete as I can : it is not for the use of 

 florists that I pretend to write ; but for the use of per- 

 sons who have the means of forming pretty gardens, and 

 who have a taste for making use of these means ; a taste 

 which, I am sorry to say, has been declining in England 

 for a great many years. 



SHRUBBERIES. 



312, As to the form of shrubberies, or pleasure 

 grounds, that must greatly depend upon adventitious cir- 

 cumstances so various that particular directions must be 

 inapplicable in nine cases out of ten. There are some 

 things, however, which are general to all situations, and, 

 with respect to these, I shall offer my opinion. Shrub- 

 beries should be so planted, if they be of any consi- 

 derable depth, as for the tallest trees to be at the back, 



