164 THE CANADIAN HORnCULTURIST. 



should be of one variety, the effect will also be very line. For this 

 I purpose the China or Bengal class cannot be excelled. 



As I am not here to-night to give you a lesson upon landscape 

 ^gardening, even had I the ability so to do, I shall simply call your 

 attention to a few of the most desirable trees for what might be termed 

 •second-class places. For a group of low-growing trees, commend to 

 me always certain species of the Magnolia. The M. conspicua, with 

 pure white bloom ; 31. soulangeana, with its white flower, striped and 

 shaded with purple ; M. cordata, with golden yellow, odorous bloom ; 

 and lastly, but very far from least, the beautiful M. Thompsoniana, 

 with creamy white fragrant flowers. We have here a group of four 

 trees that cannot be excelled — hardy, beautiful — in foliage and flower, 

 and so entirely free from injurious insects that they seem to combine 

 ^all the excellencies one could desire. 



Another pretty group of small-sized trees may be composed of the 

 JIalesia tetraptera, (or Silver Bell,) Laburnum, (or Golden Chain,) 

 ■and the Cercis Canadensis, (Red Bud or Judas tree.) Still another 

 group of the same size can be formed of the Prunus Padus, (or 

 European Bird Cherry,) PTius cotinus, (or Purple Mist,) Chionanthus 

 Virginica, (or White Wood or Virgilia.) 



In a corner of the grounds a closely massed group of the different 

 colored double flowering peaches will be very pleasing wlien in bloom, 

 and where they will succeed, nothing can excel the numerous varieties 

 of thorns. In the centre of the peaches I would insert a tree of Reid's 

 weeping variety, a graceful drooping tree, and among the thorns plant 

 the weeping variety of it These have a tendency to remove a certain 

 ■uniformity of outline prevalent in all such masses. 



As we leave the small class of trees and advance to those of larger 

 growth, I unliesitatingly place in the front rank, if not at the very 

 head, the Norway Maple. Seldom do we find its equal in all that 

 pertains to a specimen tree. With ample foliage of the richest shade 

 of green, globular in form, perfectly hardy and healtliy in almost every 

 situation, it appears peculiarly adapted to stand alone upon a beautiful 

 lawn. Another, although of a widely different character, is the White 

 Birch, [Betula alba) and its delicate cut-leaved variety. The silver- 

 leaved Linden succeeds well everywhere, and is undeniably a beautiful 

 specimen tree, as well as the English cork-barked maple, when branched 

 t© the ground. Altliougli of large size, the Sweet Gum, (Liquid amber) 



