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Art. VI. Hints to Proprietors who intend planting Pleasure- Grounds, 

 Shrubberies, or other ornamental Plantations. By the Con- 

 ductor. 



Few will deny that the chief source of the beauty of shrubberies and orna- 

 mental plantations is, the variety of trees and shrubs which are displayed in 

 them. A good deal, no doubt, depends on the character of the ground, the 

 distance, and the arrangement ; but still the grand source of the beauty and 

 interest, more especially in the present times, when every body is a botanist, 

 and every gentleman under fifty an arboriculturist, is the number of species 

 and varieties of handsome trees and shrubs. In the time of TJvedale Price, 

 when there was not a twentieth part of the species and varieties of trees and 

 shrubs in cultivation which are now in the country, the great object of the 

 landscape-gardener was to create picturesque beauty ; and even so late as the 

 time of the publication of the late Sawrey Gilpin's book (see Vol.VIII. p. 700., 

 and Obit. p. 332.), the trees and shrubs recommended by him, both in his book 

 and in his reports, were chiefly " cedars, cypresses, stone pines, and filereas " 

 (meaning pinasters and phillyreas). In the present day, however, we not only 

 study to display, in pleasure-grounds and shrubberies, the picturesque, but the 

 gardenesque ; and accordingly there is no limit to the variety of trees and 

 shrubs that may be introduced, and that with admirable effect. 



We are persuaded that there are very few country gentlemen, or amateur 

 gardening ladies, who have either any idea of the number of species of trees 

 and shrubs which are cultivated in some nurseries, or of the very low price at 

 which these may be purchased. In our preceding Number, p. 504., we gave 

 an analysis of the recently printed sheet catalogue of hardy trees and shrubs 

 of Messrs. Whitley and Osborn of the Fulham Nursery, to show the number 

 of species and varieties it contained, amounting altogether to 1591 species 

 and varieties. We have since got Messrs. Whitley and Osborn to put the 

 prices to their catalogue, and the following is an analysis of it, with reference 

 to the number of species and varieties that may be procured for different sums 

 from 10/. to 230/. It must be borne in mind that the prices ai'e supposed to 

 be for a single plant, or at most two plants of a kind, the object being to 

 supply collections for arboretums, or collections for shrubberies or pleasure- 

 grounds : but, if several plants were required, the prices would be greatly 

 reduced; some of the plants, as the common elm, Scotch pine, and spruce fir, 

 for example, when bought by the thousand, to less than a tenth of what is 

 here charged. This, however, applies to but very few species and varieties. 

 It should also be taken into account that none but vigorous plants are sent 

 out of the Fulham Nursery, a precaution absolutely necessary when only one 

 plant of a kind is sold ; and that these plants are all correctly named, we 

 can assert from personal examination while preparing the Arboretum Britan- 



Analj/sis of Messrs. Wlnlley and Osborn'' s Catalogue of Hnrchj Trees and Shrubs 

 for ISiS-l, with reference to the Prices of the Plants. 



Number of Trees from M. to Qd. - 5 £ s. d. ^ s. d. 



. ,-_= ., _ Shrubs from 3r/. to Qd. 



Species and varieties 

 Trees at 9f/. - - - 8 

 Shrubs at dd. - - - 57 



Species and varieties — 65 for 2 8 9 

 Trees at Is. 

 Shrubs at 1.9. - 



Species and varieties 

 All the preceding species and 



varieties, viz. - - 230 for 10 2 8 



5 



£ s. d. 



6 





— 



21 for 9 11 



32 











112 













14i for 

 230 



7 



4 







for 



