SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP, 



grass-walks were borders of beautiful flowers. I have 

 stood for hours to look at this canal, which the good- 

 natured manners of those days had led the proprietor to 

 make an opening in the outer wall in order that his 

 neighbours might enjoy the sight as well as himself j I 

 have stood for hours, when a little boy, looking at this 

 Object ; I have travelled far since, and have seen a great 

 deal j but I have never seen any thing of the gardening 

 kind so beautiful in the whole course of my life. 



318. The present taste is on the side of irregularity : 

 straight walks, straight pieces of water, straight rows of 

 trees, seem all to be out of fashion 5 but, it is also true 

 that neatness - f that really fine shrubberies and flower- 

 gardens, have gone out of fashion at the same time. 

 People, however, must follow their own tastes in these 

 respects -, and it is useless to recommend this or that 

 manner of laying out a piece of ground. I proceed, 

 therefore, to speak of the propagation and management 

 of shrubs, in the first place 3 and shall then give a list of 

 the several shrubs, mentioning under each name any 

 thing worthy of particular attention. 



SHRUBS. 



319. SHRUBS are propagated in just the same way that 

 fruit-trees are, by cuttings, by slips, by layers, by graft- 

 ing and budding in some instances, and, in every instance, 

 they may be propagated by seed, and that, too, without 

 the same inconvenience that occurs in the case of fruit- 



