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the depths, or break into dappled light and shade 

 over a small, open plot of meadow in beautiful, 

 wavy lines, or out of all these combine a mingled 

 effect of many kinds of scenery. 



In the park I avail myself, as a rule, of native 

 or thoroughly acclimated trees and shrubs, and 

 avoid all foreign ornamental plants, for idealized 

 Nature must still be true to the character of the 

 country and climate to which it belongs so as to 

 appear of spontaneous growth and not betray the 

 artifice which may have been used. We have 

 many beautiful flowering shrubs growing wild 

 in Germany which should be freely used, while 

 a centifolia rose, a Chinese lilac, or a clump of 

 such shrubs in a spot in the middle of a wild 

 wood strike us unpleasantly as an affectation un- 

 less they are found by themselves in an enclosed 

 space, as, for instance, in a little garden near a 

 cottage which sufficiently indicates the neighbor- 

 hood and hand of man. Some foreign trees, such 

 as white pines, acacias, larches, planes, locusts, 

 purple beeches, may be regarded as native, 

 though I prefer for our country lindens, oaks, 

 maples, beeches, alders, elms, chestnuts, ash, 

 birch, etc. 



Varieties of poplar which are very useful in 

 the beginning on account of their rapid growth, 

 I remove in the course of time, as their branches 

 are too straggly and their grayish green too som- 

 ber ; yet modifications occur easily; silver poplars, 

 for example, relieved against any dark wood, 

 making a pleasant variation, and old Canadian 



