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Art. III. On the Management of Shrubberies. By Geo. Geggie. 



The errors committed in the planting and after- management 

 of shrubberies, as these operations are generally performed, 

 have been so often pointed out in the Gardener's Magazine, 

 that it would be superfluous to repeat them. From the time, 

 however, that most of your valuable remarks on the subject 

 have been before the public, and from the rules there laid 

 down being so clear, and derived from principles which have 

 never been controverted, it is rather a matter of surprise that 

 they seem to be so little appreciated in practice. This arises, in 

 many cases, no doubt, from the shrubberies being old, and 

 having grown up with all their faults : they are considered past 

 reclaiming, and so left to " have their way," till some one of 

 more taste, or more energy, undertakes their renovation. An- 

 other reason of shrubberies being allowed to grow up too thick 

 arises from the indiscriminate stuffing adopted in their formation, 

 without any system being followed in the arrangement of those 

 plants which ought ultimately to form the plantations; since, 

 to keep the shrubberies sufficiently thin, some of the most 

 valuable plants would require to be destroyed at every thinning, 

 and in the end they would very likely be deprived of many of 

 the most valuable species altogether. In this case, it is obvious 

 that the advantages of thinning are very questionable. Ex- 

 ample, however, in this, as in every thing, must act as the 

 greatest stimulus in the general adoption of a superior system of 

 management; and such an example, to be efficient, should be 

 open to the public. Such an example, I am sorry to say, we are 

 not likely soon to possess in this neighbourhood, as the Man- 

 chester Botanic Garden, originally faulty in this respect, ex- 

 hibits most of the blemishes so often pointed out, in a greater 

 or less degree. This is strikingly exemplified in the bank 

 opposite the entrance gates, which, for want of timely thinning, 

 has assumed the appearance of a lumpish thicket, without the 

 least variety of outline, and which will, in a short time, defeat 

 the object for which it was planted; viz. as a screen. 



Biay, Sept. 8. 1838. 



Art. IV. On Moving and Replanting large Trees, as practised at 

 Arlington Court, near Barnstaple, Devonshire. By John Nash, 

 Gardener there. 



According to promise, I herewith send you a short account 

 of the method we practise here in moving and replanting large- 

 sized trees. Our first object, after having determined on a 

 place for a group or a single tree, is to select as good plants 

 as we can for the situation ; and for this purpose we choose 



