138 



they should be planted without further delay; 

 in performing which it will be requisite, first to 

 set each plant on the surface, in the place 

 wherein it is intended it should stand, that an 

 opportunity may be had of changing any of 

 them to situations in which it might be thought 

 they would have a better effect. 



In thus regulating them it should be a lead- 

 ing principle, to pay a strict attention to variety ; 

 endeavouring to mix the different shades and 

 foliage in the most agreeable and elegant man- 

 ner. The future growth of the plants must 

 also be considered, more than the present size, 

 and the tall growing species arranged in the 

 hindmost row r s, and the more dwarf kinds to- 

 wards the front : for although some which re- 

 quire to be in the back rows may at present be 

 small plants, they will soon outstrip the others 

 when planted out and encouraged. Care must 

 be taken likewise to allow each species suffi- 

 cient room according to its supposed natural 

 growth. 



Having arranged the plants in the best man- 

 supposition of the house being to build, &c. in the spring or 

 summer, in which case, it cannot well be fit for the recep- 

 tion of the plants before August. 



