112 Ftemarlcs on ornamental Forestry. 



Hhdm?ius prwiifblius Booth. A shrub from North America, 

 with small curled leaves, and of stinted growth. Quite hardy. 



Cytisus purpureas incarnatus Booth. This is a beautiful new 

 variety, with large pale flesh-coloured, or blush flowers, between 

 C. purpureus and C. p. flore albo. Raised here from seed. It 

 is very distinct, and a desirable ornamental shrub. 



Yrdxinus oxyphylla taurica. This variety has much smaller 

 and more graceful leaves than the species. It is quite hardy. 



Flottbeck Nurseries. Jan. 4. 1842. 



Art. XI. Remarks on ornamental Forestry. By A.S. M. 



Ornamental trees require not the assistance of the pruner. 

 Their branches should be secure from the unhallowed inter- 

 ference of his chisel and his knife. But, though trees intended 

 for ornament should be thus left to grow as they please as 

 regards pruning, they can never form a pleasing feature in the 

 landscape unless much attention is paid to the manner of 

 grouping them when at first planted. When a piece of ground 

 is planted with an exclusive view to profit, the trees are gene- 

 rally placed at equal distances over the surface of the ground, 

 each one, of course, in the soil it loves best; whereas, in plant- 

 ing for effect, not only have trees to be placed in the soil most 

 favourable to their growth, but the different forms of their 

 heads, their connexion with each other and with the surrounding 

 scenery, must all be considered before a line is staked out or a 

 spade put into the ground. Are you planting in the bottom of 

 a narrow valley by the sides of a running brook, then plant 

 your collection of salixes there, and next them your poplars, 

 that it may be known from a distance that water is there. Take 

 care, however, not to fill all the bottom of the valley with tall- 

 growing trees, else you will make it appear that there is no 

 vallev there at all. Leave open spaces here and there, that the 

 surface of the ground may be seen, and the windings of the 

 brook traced from the neighbouring rising grounds. As you 

 ascend the sides of the valley, let the ash and the elm give place 

 to the oak ; and so on till you reach the summit of the rocks, 

 where the pine tribes love to strike their roots and wave to the 

 "winter's blast. If there is a green knoll at the place, it must be 

 left bare, and surrounded by the beech and the oak, the moon- 

 light screen of the fairy inhabitants of all such green mounds, 

 and mushrooms should be introduced to serve them for tables to 

 sit around on their feast nights. 

 Perthshire^ Dec. 1841. 



