THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



AUGUST, 1835. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Some Account of the Arboretum lately commenced by His 

 Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatstvorth, in Derbyshire. 

 Communicated by His Grace's Head-Gardener and Forester there, 

 Mr. Paxton, F.L.S. H.S. &c. 



The arboretum at Chatsworth was only commenced last 

 spring (1835), though a pinetum had been planted there some 

 years ago. There are two modes by which arboretums may be 

 formed : one is by distributing the trees and shrubs over a sur- 

 face in the manner in which trees are planted in a park or 

 pleasure-ground, as is done in the arboretum of the Horticul- 

 tural Society's garden at Chiswick ; and the other by distributing 

 the trees and shrubs along one or both sides of a walk, some- 

 what in the manner done in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges 

 at Hackney. The first mode is calculated for universal use ; 

 because by it the smallest place, if it contains only a quarter of 

 an acre, may, as far as that space permits, be made an arboretum, 

 simply by planting no duplicates of either ti'ees or shrubs. Small 

 places of two or three acres may contain most interesting arbo- 

 retums ; and, indeed, by omitting the larger poplars, elms, 

 and willows, and by excluding in a great measure such species 

 and varieties as bear a close resemblance to each other, a country 

 residence of three acres, planted without duplicates, may ex- 

 hibit a very tolerable arboretum. When, however, we come to 

 a place of ten acres, twenty acres, thirty acres, or upwards, a 

 most interesting display may be made ; and it is not too much 

 to say that a country residence of a hundred acres, if planted 

 without duplicates, or if planted with duplicates to be cut 

 down at a proper season, would display a complete arboretum. 

 The larger-growing trees could not be allowed to attain their 

 full size in such an arboretum ; but they would have space to 

 grow large enough for all the ordinary purposes of ornament 

 and enjoyment. If the proprietors of small places, or their 

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