U2 €>F RURAL GARDENING. SECT. XI. 



If there is good room, Jingle trees of the fir kind, at due 

 diftances, are admirable ornaments about a honfe, and 

 clumps of flirubs all of the fame kind have a good 



Thofe who have much fpace of ground to decorate, 

 do well to plant trees and flirubs of every kind, as 

 enlarging the fources of amufement, and affording 

 opportunities for observation; but if the allotment of 

 ground for this purpofe is contracted, then, of courfe, 

 thofe only mould be planted, which by their neat foliage, 

 natural fymmetry, and gay flowers, may be truly efteem- 

 ed ornamental. 1 hey mould be fuch as ftrike the eye 

 of perfons in general though they have nothing of 

 Angularity to engage the attention of the curious in 

 plants. It too often happens, that good old forts of 

 trees, flirubs, and Sowers, are excluded for nezv ones, 

 but if the latter are not more elegant, and generally 

 pieafmg, the practice is furely not a wife one : in 

 ornamental gardening, on a J mall fcale, great care 

 ihould be taken, in the choice of what is really pretty, 

 that nothing dull or rambling be introduced. 



In the moft fneitered place, near the houfe, there 

 fhould be an inclojure of a compaft nature, as fuppole 

 oiyezv, dwarf, elm, ox hornbeam, (rather the former) open 

 only to the South, as a neceffary apartment to place 

 things in trom the greenhouje, or occafionally the hot- 

 Ihwje, tender annuals, or any hardy curitiUs potted 

 plants, for a fummer refidence. Spruce firs anfwer 

 very well for a fcreen, being kept* dipt a little after 

 Midfummer. For this purpofe, or for hedges to Sepa- 

 rate, or divide, any fpot of ground, the hop hornbeam is 

 better than the common fort, which holds its dead leaves 

 on all the winter, and makes a litter at fpring. This 

 bufinefs may alfo be eafily effefted by planting elder 

 cuttings at a foot afunder, which will grow up quickly, 

 being kept moinv 



The ivalks fhcmld always be wide, feme (in general) 

 Terpentine, and contrived as much as poflible upon a 



level f 



