Chap. III.] 



THE GARDEN OF PLANTS. 



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causes this state of things, but certain botanists have got a fixed 

 idea that it is even wrong to arrange a scientific garden so that 

 it should be beautiful ! — that is to say, that having rich and varied 

 collections of plants from many countries is necessarily antago- 

 nistic to disposing the garden in a picturesque and agreeable 



NEW ■WEEPING HONEY LOCUST {Gleditsc'hui. Btijoti).— Garden of Plants. 



manner. Probably some may remember to have heard this view 

 laid down as regards our most important gardens. Nothing can 

 be more untrue, and nothing more harmful to every interest of 

 the garden. Anybody really acquainted with horticulture knows 

 that the best collections very often are found in the gardens most 

 beautifully disposed. For example, it is well known that by far 



