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SECTION III. 



THE NEWEE DEOmUOITS OENAMENTAl TEEES AND SHETJBS. 



We do not intend in this section to occupy tlie atten- 

 tion of tlie reader by any preliminary remarks as to the 

 ornamental or practical value of any of the varieties 

 we shall describe. Mr. Downing has abeady, to a 

 great extent, done this in the preceding portion of the 

 book. It remains for us simply to introduce to planters 

 such new scions and connections of their older friends 

 — the results, sometimes of inter-marriage between the 

 ancient families, producing hybrids and crosses — and 

 sometimes from the new discoveries of trees, which the 

 increased intercourse all over the world has enabled 

 collectors and societies to make. With this introduction 

 we shall proceed at once to describe those trees and 

 plants omitted in the previous edition and which our 

 observation has induced us to believe are well worthy 

 the attention of amateurs. 



Acer. The Mafle. 



A. Campestre, erroneously campestris of the Catalogues (the 

 Common or English Field maple). — This is a beautiful, com- 

 pact, round-headed tree, or rather bush, rarely exceeding twenty 

 or twenty-five feet in height, and, if allowed to assume its natural 

 shape, quite as broad as it is high. This tree, which is one of 

 the most ornamental of the maples, is very rarply to be met 

 with, though common, we believe, in our best nurseries. It is 

 a tree, above all others of its kind, suited to small lawns, where 

 it should stand alone, or on the outside of loose gardenesque 

 groups, where it is accessible on all sides ; since the character 



