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with, a great part had better be laid out in wood. 

 Woodland is always charming and restful and en- 

 duringly beautiful, and then there is an iutermediate 

 kind of woodland that should be made more of — wood- 

 land of the orchard type. > Why is the orchard put 

 out of the way, as it generally is, ia some remote 

 region beyond the kitchen garden and stables ? I 

 should like the lawn, or the hardy flower garden, or 

 both, to pass directly into it on one side, and to plant 

 a space of several acres, not necessarily in the usual 

 way, with orchard standards twenty-five feet apart in 

 straight rows (though in many places the straight rows 

 might be best), but to have groups and even groves 

 of such things as Medlars and Quinces, Siberian and 

 Chinese Crabs, Damsons, Prunes, Service trees, an^ 

 Mountaia Ash, besides Apples, Pears, and Cherries, 

 in both standar(J and bush forms. Then alleys of 

 Filbert and Cob-nut, and in the opener spaces tangles 

 or brakes of the many beautiful bushy things allied to 

 the Apple and Plum tribe — Cydonia and Prunus triloba 

 and Oratmgus of many kinds (some of them are tall 

 bushes or small trees with beautiful fruits); and the 

 wild Blackthorn, which, though a plum, is so nearly 

 related to pear that pears may be grafted on it. And 

 then brakes of Blackberries, especially of the Parsley- 

 leaved kind, so free of growth and so generous of 

 fruit. How is it that this fine native plant is almost 

 invariably sold in nurseries as an American bramble ? 

 If I am mistaken in this I should be glad to be 



