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too. To the little ones of the family also, the value of 

 the garden may have no limit : give a little boy or a 

 little girl a bit of ground to call his own or her own, 

 and encourage the young owner to cultivate it well, and 

 it may be the nursery of all the good qualities that I 

 have named, and many more. 



One great merit in horticulture is, that it confines 

 itself to no rank, and that it may form the amusement 

 or the pursuit alike of great and small, rich and poor ; 

 only, the kind of garden we choose, what we do with 

 the land which we have at command, must depend on 

 those extraneous circumstances to which we all have 

 to submit. 



The Landscape Garden is perhaps the most preten- 

 tious, since it demands not only an extensive, but a varied, 

 site. Those, however, who happen to have a rough 

 piece of ground to bring into cultivation, can devote 

 their knowledge and prescience to create from it a 

 pleasure ground of varied and great beauty, by contriviog 

 the planting to humour the accidents of the ground, and 

 by altering the ground to assist the plantations, thickets, 

 shrubberies, and vegetation of dilferent kinds. Trees and 

 shrubs planted in large or small groups, or singly ; taste- 

 ful openings to show distant peeps of scenery, wherever 

 such happen to be at command ; promontories reached 

 by rough rustic stairs, now seen, now hidden ; faces of 

 cliffs, in some parts densely draped with foliage, in others 

 shaped into little flats, planted with groups of plants of 

 bold foliage, hollowed out into caverns and grottoes, 

 adorned with picturesque erections, or left in naked rug- 

 gedness, helped by the hand of man to an angle taking 

 the finest sunset tints, — will lead on such a bit of ground 

 to a very beautiful landscape garden. The top of the 

 height may be shaped into terrace walks, approached 

 from below at intervals by gradual ascents and rustic 

 stairs ; and half way up and near the bottom, summer- 

 houses, aviaries, grottoes, little caves, arbours, and seats 

 of various form, may at once please the eye and utilize 

 the position by offering pleasant places for rest, and cool 

 or warm refreshment to suit all seasons. Little hills can 



