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than one tree in a score need be planted ; and the fencing of single trees 

 against cattle or deer by any of the modes that we have shown in the article 

 already referred to (Vol. XIII. p. 149. No. 8.*) is comparatively trifling; 

 while the expense of cleaning the plantation for a number of years, of keeping 

 the boundary fence in repair, and of ultimately thinning out and sowing with 

 grass seeds, is altogether avoided. The expense, however, we consider but a 

 very secondary matter ; though it also ought to be subjected to principle. 



Much less deformity in the meantime. We want words to express our dislike of 

 the lumpish unconnected clumps and masses which have recently been made in 

 the most conspicuous situations in Hyde Park. We will ask any private gentle- 

 man whether, if he had such a park, he would tolerate such deformities if perpe- 

 trated by his gardener ? And, unless the fences and great part of the trees be 

 removed, these deformities will remain at least twenty years. We state this 

 with confidence, because it is nearly, if not quite, thirty years since the belt 

 along the north side of Hyde Park was planted, and it was only thinned out 

 three or four years ago. Will any one assert that, if the single trees now left 

 there, and which formed part of that belt, had been planted by themselves at 

 the time the belt was planted, they would not have been as large as they are 

 at present? We have no hesitation whatever in stating it as our opinion, that 

 they would not only have been larger, but have had far handsomer heads. 

 At no period of their existence can trees^jdanted singly, whether small or 

 large, with or without fences, be considered as deformities in a landscape. 

 Even considered as mere poles stuck in the ground, they harmonise and 

 connect themselves with one another, and with the adjoining objects ; and 

 they change their position, and form ever-varying groups, with the varied 

 position of the spectator, who, if he has any imagination, pictures to himself 

 what will be their ultimate appearance. To be convinced of the truth of this 

 position, we have only to look at the single trees planted two or three years 

 ago, and fenced with thorns, in the Regent's Park. 



If, notwithstanding what we have stated, it should be contended that, in 

 the vale of Middlesex, single trees, of a given size, and a given power of 

 resistance to the weather, will be sooner produced by planting them in masses 

 than by planting them singly, then we can only recommend the opinion to 

 be taken of gardeners and planters, who are at once scientific men, and men 

 who have had extensive practice in this department. We state this, because 

 we certainly think that the public have no right to have such deformities 

 inflicted on them as have recently been perpetrated in Hyde Park, unless it 

 can be shown that they are necessary for the end in view. 



Art. VIII. Botanical, Floricultural, and Arboricultural Notices of 

 the Kinds of Plants newly introduced into British Gardens and 

 Plantations, or which have been originated in them ; together with ad- 

 ditional Information respecting Plants (whether old or new) already 

 in Cultivation : the whole intended to serve as a perpetual Supplement 

 to the " Eticyclopcedia of Plants," the " Hortus Britannicus" the 

 " Hortus Lignosus," and the " Arboretum et Fruticetum Britan- 



Curlis's Botanical Magazine ; in monthly numbers, each containing 



seven plates ; 3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. Edited by Sir William 



Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c. 

 Edwards's Botanical Register ; in monthly numbers, new series, each 



containing six plates; Ss. 6d. coloured, 35. plain. Edited by Dr. 



Lindley, Professor of Botany in the London University. 



* See the subject of Tree Guards treated in detail, and illustrated by 

 twelve engravings, in the Suburban Gardener, p. 555. 



