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convinced that they will be far more richly rewarded for their 

 labor than in seeking for those of distant origin. We mider- 

 value no beautiful tree, coriie from where it may ; but in 

 seeking out our own, we shall be sure to get the most de- 

 sirable and ornamental. In future articles, we shall notice 

 more particularly some of our most desirable trees. 



Art. II. On Planting Evergreens for Ornamenting Villa 

 Gardens. By R. B. L. 



In my last article on this subject, I have stated that there 

 are comparatively few ofthe large foliated evergreens indige- 

 nous to this country, or capable of enduring our rigorous win- 

 ters, which form the undergrowth of English shrubberies, 

 and therefore we are unable to produce the various expressions 

 which characterize them. And as some who have read my 

 remarks cannot see why there should be any difference in the 

 general features of an American and an English landscape, I 

 cannot better substantiate my statements than by analyzing 

 an English shrubbery, and taking a glance at the materials 

 of which it consists ; and by contrasting an English suburban 

 villa landscape with one here of similar extent, we will find 

 that the diiference is not owing to an absolute deficiency of 

 landscape taste or appreciation of the beautiful, — for I believe 

 this exists to as great an extent in this country, among those 

 who possess villa gardens, as among the same class in Eng- 

 land ; but it is rather owing to a deficiency of those materials 

 which they have in abundance on the other side of the water. 



The American visitor, on entering an English shrubbery 

 whether large or small, is generally struck with the richness 

 of its composition; and this circumstance, in nineteen in- 

 stances out of twenty, is owing more to its materials than to 

 any distinguishable taste displayed in the arrangement. More- 

 over, on examination and inquiry, he finds that most of the 

 shrubs in these grounds are not only foreign plants, but many 

 of them positively indigenous to America, and natives of his 

 own land, and are termed by English gardeners, by Avay of 



