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oaks, etc., have a place in our assortment. Each have their admirers, and justly 

 too. But above and beyond them all there is no single tree in the writer's 

 estimation can compare with the hardy, graceful, drooping form, of the Cut Leaved 

 Weeping Birch. As this, very general favorite, received its due mead of praise 

 from the veleran horticulturists, Simon Roy and P. E. Bucke, in former pages 



of this journal, any further comments by me 

 upon the same would be surperfluous, saving 

 perhaps one, and that is, that there is surely 

 good grounds for entertaining the hope that 

 ere long this useful and elegant tree will find 

 a place on every well kept lawn, seeing the 

 first cost would rarely exceed the price of 

 half a dozen imported Havanas. Amongst 

 the " departed," which found our soil and 

 rigid winter clime uncongenial to their 

 longevity, may be mentioned the Purple 

 Leaved Beech, (iolden Chain (Laburnum), 

 Double White Thorn, and Kilmarnock Weep- 

 ing Willow. Some of these may be replaced 

 for another trial. Nothing adds more to the 

 comfort and beauty of our rural homes, than 

 a select variety of evergreens. A row of 

 Norway spruces, planted so as to form a 

 ])leasing and effective wind break along 

 three out of the four points of a fruit enclo- 

 sure, leaving the southern exposure free, to 

 fan at will the genial health-giving rays of 

 summer, lends enchantment to the aspect, 

 and adds considerably to the profit side of 

 the ledger. Balsam nr, red cedar, hemlock, 

 Scotch and Austrian pine, dovetailed with 

 dwarf, pyramidalis, Siberian and heath-leaved 

 arbor vitals, including mountain pine and 

 Irish junipers, in all their varied hues, im- 

 part in an eminent degree a truly fascinating 

 effect to the surroundings. 



No doubt this amateur sketch would partly 



tail in its object if a few of the matchless 



gems amongst our deciduous shrubs were 



denied a setting in Nature's floral casket. 



Who that has once seen them in their beauty 



.^^/^i/!imK^MXXofaSlS(i^^''' of bud and blossom would willingly be with- 

 gt^mm[llin.imnr}mmm)lM\MM\m ^^^^ Prunus Triloba, Weigela Rosea, Deutzia 



