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imitation of parks in the ancient or modern style, 

 with avenues or with groups and scattered trees. At 

 masqued routs, caves and grottos are formed under 

 conical stages, and covered with moss and pots of 

 trees, in imitation of wooded hills. In short, there 

 is no end to the arrangement of plants at routs : and 

 the reader is not to suppose that only real plants with 

 roots are necessary for this purpose ; for, provided a 

 few of these be judiciously introduced, all the rest 

 can he effected by branches of box, laurustinus, laurel, 

 juniper, holly, &c., decorated with artificial flowers 

 and fruits, and fitted to stems or trunks to answer 

 either as trees or shrubs ; and besides these, whole 

 pine and fir trees, the spruce especially, can be cut 

 over, and thus admirable groves formed- in a short 

 time. Artificial supplies of odour of the rose, the 

 orange, or the jasmine, are readily supplied. Much 

 romantic splendour may be produced in this way with 

 little expense of green-house plants. 



Next to the common domestic flower- stage, and a 

 handsome plant placed here and there in spare places 

 in the lobby, hall, staircase, &c., are a few choice 

 specimens of tall plants in fruit or flower, distributed 

 in the drawing-room : the orange, the camellia, the 

 acacia, and tree heaths, are well adapted for this 

 purpose. 



