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in pleasure grounds and shrubberies, which they follow as 

 far as possible, in every place and under all circumstances alike, 

 whether in a place containing six rods or six acres. But it 

 cannot be asserted that this higglety-pigglety arrangement 

 produces variety ; on the contrary, it produces the most dis- 

 tracting incongruity. On the eye examining the whole if 

 small, or the different parts if some acres in extent, it finds no 

 harmony — no relief — no repose of effect on the mind — no 

 difference of composition or change of character ; or, if from 

 a distance we look upon the outlines of such a shrubbery, it 

 is, from the indiscriminate mixture of the same plants, more 

 disagreeably dull and monotonous than if only two or three 

 kinds of trees had been planted ; an effect which is now 

 produced by natural plantations. 



This indiscriminate mixture of trees and shrubs on a lawn, 

 or round a residence, is not variety, and is evidently pro- 

 duced by the ignorance of what constitutes variety ; for it 

 must be remembered that variety does not consist in the 

 mere difference of individual and separate parts, but in the 

 diversity of their effects when combined together — in a dif- 

 ference of character and composition. Very different is the 

 effect of such a diversity from the other — it relieves the eye 

 and pleases the mind, without burdening or fatiguing either ; 

 and we will find that instead of planting trees and shrubs 

 that are most diversified, contiguous to each other, those are 

 best suited to the purpose, that differ in the smallest degree 

 from each other, while they are distinct in themselves. 



Roxbury, Dec. 25th, 1852. 



{To be Continued.) 



Art. III. Descriptions and Engraviiigs of four new varie- 

 ties of Pears. By Andre' Leroy, Angers, France. 



Enclosed you will find the descriptions of four new pears, 

 viz., Nouveau Poiteau, Marechal de la Coeur, Beurre Nantais, 

 and Saint Jean Baptiste. I hope to be able to send you some 

 others in a short time. 



