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we might devote one city park chiefly to large deciduous trees ; 

 another, say a suburban one, as Eichmond, mainly to evergreen 

 forest trees ; a third to the almost countless flowering deciduous 

 trees and shrubs that are the glory of the grove and copse in all 

 northern and temperate countries ; and so on. Or we might 

 treat the subject geographically, and have one small park of 

 French or British trees, shrubs, and plants ; another of European, 

 a third of American, a fourth of Siberian, and so on. This plan 



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does not involve the rejection of other types of vegetation. On 

 the contrary, their presence would often be necessary to contrast 

 with those to which a park or garden might be chiefly devoted. 

 But even if it were determined to devote a park exclusively to the 

 vegetation of one country, no one need doubt that the highest 

 effects could be produced by it alone who remembers what we find 

 in our lanes and woodlands from the association of a few kinds of 

 native plants. We could, by the adoption of this system, define 



