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tion on trees which in other situations would 

 be unnoticed. No wonder, then, if we are 

 particularly struck with any of the beauti- 

 ful exotics when so placed; with an acacia, 

 a pine, a cedar, that shade part of a village- 

 house; with an arbutus, or a cluster of 

 lilacs, over-topping the wall, or the pales 

 of its garden. In ^these cases, besides the 

 real and less familiar beauty of such trees 

 and shrubs, and the effect of contrast, there 

 -fe another circumstance that helps to attract 

 Stttd fo our attention ; they are separated 

 from that infinite variety of similar pi educ- 

 tions, which while it amuses distracts the 

 eye in shrubberies, and collections of ex- 

 otics. 



But though trees and shrubs of every 

 kind have a peculiar and distinguished ef- 

 fect, in consequence of accompanying, and 

 being accompanied by the houses of a vil- 

 lage, there is another tribe of plants which 

 gains still more by such a situation, and 

 which indeed no other can shew to such 

 advantage; I mean the various sorts of 

 climbing plants. All of them in their na- 



