Cheshunt Cottage. 



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Boat-house and Agave Mount. 



the walks, and distributing the trees and shrubs ; though the 

 choice of a situation for the pond, and the mount adjoining it, 

 is also a matter of some consequence. 



The trees and shrubs, being comparatively limited in number, 

 consist of one of almost every kind that is to be procured in 

 British nurseries, exclusive of those which are common, or not 

 considered ornamental. In selecting these, the more rare kinds 

 have been procured, and planted quite young ; Mr. Harrison 

 and Mr. Pratt having found, by experience, that the pines and 

 firs should be planted out when not more than of three or four 

 years' growth. When the plants have been in pots, the balls 

 should be gently broken with the hand, and afterwards all the 

 earth washed away from the roots by the application of water. 

 The plant may then be placed on a hill of prepared mould, and 

 the roots stretched out, so as to radiate from the plant in every 

 direction, and afterwards covered with mould. This is the mode 

 adopted by Mr. Barron at Elvaston Castle, of which more 

 hereafter. A list of Mr. Harrison's very choice collections of 

 ^bietinse and Cupressina?, has been given in our Arboretum, 

 vol. iv. p. 2450., and in this Magazine, vol. xiv. p. 30. These 

 pines and firs are in a most healthy state ; and Pinus excelsa, 

 P. inops, and P. Banks/awa, Picea pectinata, Cedrus Deoddra, 

 and ^4 v bies DouglaszV are remarkably fine specimens. 



The masses of trees and shrubs are chiefly on the mount near 

 the lake, and along the margin which shuts out the kitchen- 

 garden ; and in these places they are planted in the gardenesque 

 manner, so as to produce irregular groups of trees, with masses 

 of evergreen and deciduous shrubs as undergrowth, intersected 



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