150 On Planting Evergreens. 



Here is a list, taken on the spur of a hasty visit, from a 

 pleasure ground of two acres in extent ; and let our learned 

 landscape writers, who are eternally talking about the pictures 

 of landscape painters, and presenting them to us as models for 

 imitation, tell us also how many of the evergreens herein 

 mentioned we can have to decorate our suburban villas and 

 rural landscapes. Some of these, it will be observed, are in- 

 digenous to this country ; but only two or three of the ever- 

 greens in the foregoing list are yet to be found in our gardens. 

 The praiseworthy eflbrts of some nurserymen and private 

 gentlemen to introduce the general planting of the rarer Con- 

 ifers, and also the American holly, the kalmias, andromedas, 

 &c., are deserving of all encouragement and commendation. 

 We have lately observed in the collection of Messrs. Hovey 

 & Co., at the Cambridge Nurseries, some of the newer kinds 

 of Pinus, which we think only require to be seen to be at 

 once admired. These gentlemen have of late years done 

 much to naturalize the new Conifers and rare ornamental 

 shrubs, yet hardly enough to make the influence of their 

 efforts felt beyond their own immediate locality. The de- 

 mand for new and rare shrubs is loud, yet there is nothing of 

 any consequence to supply it. 



The villa gardens in the neighborhood of our large cities 

 are, for the most part, laid out and designed by the parties 

 who occupy them, and who, in many instances, fancy they 

 know — wliether they do or not — how to lay out their grounds 

 far better than any one else. Men who have made the art of 

 landscape gardening their peculiar study, are very seldom en- 

 gaged in the laying out of such plans, and for this reason 

 alone, we are rather disposed to think, that any animadver- 

 sions on the subject, in this relation, will be of very little 

 avail. In most cases, improvers of this description find out 

 their errors when it is too late to derive much personal advan- 

 tage from the discovery ; and it is to be regretted that those 

 who have experienced disappointments from their own efforts 

 should be prevented from recording their experience for the 

 guidance of others by any indisposition or unwillingness to 

 expose their own blunders. 



