a Vegetable Representative System. 151 



Ornamental plants may be distributed in gardens m. various 

 Ways, and for various purposes. These are all technically 

 included under Ornamental Gardening and Landscape-Gar- 

 dening. The arrangements of ornamental gardening are 

 chiefly calculated to gratify the lovers of flowers, and of trees 

 and shrubs as objects of beauty attractive to the general ob- 

 server ; those of landscape-gardening require space as an 

 essential concomitant,, and are calculated to gratify those 

 who have cultivated a taste for the beauties of landscape 

 scenery, such as groupiugj light and shade, effect, expression, 

 and character. Ornamental gardening is for all, without 

 exception, who occupy a plot of ground ; landscape-garden- 

 ing for the man of cultivation and taste, who possesses acres 

 to adorn with turf, water, and trees.. That description of 

 gardening which contains a maximum of interest and enjoy- 

 ment in a minimum of space may be denominated scientific 

 ornamental gardening * ; and of this species is the variety 

 known to botanists as the Jussieuean or Natural System. 



Most gardeners know, that, according to the Jussieuean or 

 natural system of botany, the species composing the vegetable 

 kingdom are distributed into groups ; all the species of a 

 group resembling each other in the greatest number of points, 

 not only of exterior appearance, but of anatomy, physiology, 

 chemical qualities, medical properties, and economical uses. 



This being the case, it will readily be conceived that any 

 one plant of a, group may be taken as a representative of 

 the essential appearances, qualities, properties, and uses of the 

 whole group ; and that, consequently, by taking one plant from 

 every group composing the vegetable kingdom, and bringing 

 them together in one plot or garden, that assemblage will form 

 a complete representative system of the whole of this king- 

 dom. In order to be convinced of this, and to see and 

 understand the great beauty and utility of this system 

 thoroughly, it is necessary to have recourse to Lindley's 

 Introduction ; but for the general reader it may be sufficient 

 here to refer to our Hortus Britannicus, where he will find 



regret that the smalhiess of an 8vo page will not admit of our giving these 

 diagrams so as to render them at all intelligible. The reader who is already 

 master of the natural system need not have recourse to them, unless for 

 the purpose of actually laying out a garden or residence. 



* Assuming the principal divisions of gardening to be, 1. Horticulture, 

 the culture of fruits and culinary vegetables : 2. Floriculture, the culture 

 of flowers for general ornament, as in ornamental gardening; and for 

 scientific purposes, as in botanic gardening : 3. Arboriculture : 4. Land- 

 •scape-gardening. See EncydopcBdia of G<irdening, and Quarterly Bevieiv, 

 vol. xxiv. p. 400. 



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