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pressions on the mind and suggestions to the imagi- 

 nation. 



"The latter only require our present attention and 

 the first question with reference to them is: What 

 class of objects are best adapted to the purpose? 



"Experience should lead most men to answer that 

 they are chiefly such as give the characteristic charm 

 to gardens, pleasure grounds, and rural landscapes. 

 But some consideration may be required to determine 

 by what mode of selection from among these, and by 

 what general principle of arrangement, the highest 

 practicable degree of the desired effect is to be at- 

 tained. It sometimes occurs that certain species of 

 trees grow naturally under conditions which favour 

 such a result, in forms of extraordinary symmetry, 

 their heads each having the outline of a haycock set 

 upon a straight perpendicular pose. Occasionally 

 several such trees may be found in nature, growing 

 together. Any number of objects of that character 

 would have but limited value, if any, for the purpose 

 of the park, because it is a character more nearly 

 compatible in a tree than any other with the con- 

 venience of men when living compactly in streets and 

 houses. Trees of that form might be, and in fact 

 sometimes are, grown along the streets of the city, 

 between rows of houses. 



"A series of rosebushes, grown in pots, trained to 

 single stakes, would have still less value. Trim beds of 

 flowers, such as might be set on the drawing-room 

 table, or in the fore court of a city dwelling, still less. 



