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together with the bridges, temples, ruins, lodges, &c, in con- 

 templation to be erected. Hills, also, and undulating ground 

 might be sketched in, agreeably to his fancy ; as well as other 

 things that might be suggested by way of usefulness or embel- 

 lishment. 



Perhaps some of your readers may think that enough has 

 already been written upon this subject to lead any person of 

 mind sufficiently into it. That there has been a great deal 

 written, and well written too, on landscape-gardening, cannot be 

 doubted ; but I do doubt if there are many young men among 

 your readers who can have access to such publications ; and, 

 with the exception of what is given in your Encyclopedia of 

 Gardening, and the papers that have occasionally appeared in 

 your Magazine, numbers of them may not have read a page 

 upon the subject. Besides, this, like most other subjects, is 

 capable of farther developement, and is well calculated to call 

 into play the slumbering talents of many who may not now be 

 conscious of the powers they possess. I should be really glad 

 to see this subject entered into fully by some of your intelligent 

 correspondents. It opens a wide field for the exercise and dis- 

 play of talent ; and, as it may be considered the highest branch 

 in the art of gardening, it would reflect credit upon those who 

 might favour you with designs and the necessary accom- 

 paniments of references and explanations, with such observations 

 as they might think proper to offer thereon. A farther progress 

 in the art would be thus accelerated, while the mind would be 

 employed in one of the most delightful exercises that nature has 

 afforded to man. 



Permit me to add, that your Magazine, being a periodical, is 

 well adapted for the reception of articles of merit in this inter- 

 esting branch of gardening ; as, by occasional essays, that per- 

 petual stimulus will be kept up which is necessary to the 

 perfection of every art; and notices of its progress must be 

 highly beneficial to all those who need instruction. 



Shortgrove, Essex, Jan. 1834. T. Rutger. 



Art. VII. Hints on Landscape-Gardening, on the Use of Botanical 

 Rarities in Picturesque Scenery, and on the Size and Arrangement 

 of Flower- Gardens. By Calycanthus. 



The observations of the Chevalier Sckell (p. 197.), I con- 

 sider most useful to young gardeners, by leading them to con- 

 sider theoretically some of those points which they may have 

 hitherto known only in practice. The Chevalier Sckell seems 

 to think that the great addition made since the commencement 



