64 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



dens, beeches, chestnuts, etc., being given the 

 preference. I consider it inadvisable to plant too 

 small and too young specimens, partly for their 

 own welfare and partly to avoid waste of time. 

 Therefore, I seldom take for the purpose trees 

 less than five or six feet high, and I also use only 

 shrubs that have acquired some bushiness. It is 

 hardly necessary to remark that, in general, ex- 

 tended nurseries are most important in all grounds, 

 or at least should be found in the neighborhood.' 



It is to this simple method that I attribute the 

 fact that my plantations, according to many visi- 

 tors, as a rule have, after two or three years, the 

 appearance of ten or fifteen years' growth, and 

 at the same time have served for a considerable 

 period. 



For two or three years only I have the new 

 plantations in the park weeded and raked, and 

 after that no more. This is to keep the surface 

 roots undamaged and also to save expense. The 

 plantations are then left alone, except that they 

 are gradually thinned out, either by taking away 

 trees entirely, or by cutting down others so that 

 the fresh growth will form underwood. In course 

 of time one can, with the greatest ease, give 

 plantations so arranged every variety required, 

 making them a thicket irrtpenetrable to the eye, 

 or a forest of a slender growth which will unfold 

 itself in spreading foliage, allowing peeps into 



' I cannot refrain from mentioning here the magnificent nursery in 

 Potsdam and congratulating its founder. Head Gardener Lenne, for all 

 that he has accomplished in this branch of gardening with such tireless 

 energy. 



