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much contrast with what is around them; they may be 

 sparingly introduced in clumps, and should always take the 

 lead ; a few dwarf, round-headed trees or shrubs, with the 

 poplar or cypress, are the best to group with them. (Jig. 20.) 



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However, they are much better solitary ; and in the fore-courts 

 of palaces or other buildings of sufficient consequence, I would 

 have nothing but a cedar or two. It is said that the new palace 

 erecting on the site of Buckingham House is to have a large 



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area before it, surrounded by a railing of Mosaic gold: — the 

 broad carriage-way, the dark grass, and a few cedars, are all 

 that I would introduce in it; unless it were a very lew flowering 

 shrubs, holly-hocks, or standard roses, and these not in dug- 

 beds, but on the grass. 



There are two cedars on a small mound at Sion House ; 

 these are seen from the Thames, and are sure to attract the 

 attention of every artist. I have seen numerous sketches 

 and drawings of the scene around them, and I may venture to 

 say, that it was the cedars, and they only, that were the 

 inducement. Those in the Botanic Garden at Chelsea are 

 never passed unheeded ; thus showing how valuable they are 

 in landscape composition, and consequently in landscape 

 gardening. 



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Art. VI. On forcing Hoses. By R. A. Salisbury, Esq. 

 V. R. S., &c. 

 The most successful method of obtaining these delightful 

 (lowers in great perfection during the winter months, which 

 I am acquainted with, is as follows ; but it takes three years 

 to get them strong enough to produce a full crop ; and I do 

 not here include the Chinese roses latelv introduced, which a 



