ORNAMENTAL GARDENING. 



BOOK I. 



such as are generally cultivated. Evergreens may be formed 

 into many sub-divisions, according to their magnitude, forms, 

 mode of growth, colour, &c. which are of every shade between 

 the rusciis, which is among the least, and the Bermudian juni- 

 per, which is nearly the largest — the cypress, which grows in 

 the form of a spire, to the daphne tarton raira, which forms a 

 globular tuft upon the surface — the hedera, which fastens it- 

 self to the wall, to the andromeda, or vinca, which recline them- 

 selves upon the surface — from the holly slightly tinged with 

 red, to the box of a golden yellow. 



The deciduous sorts are capable of the same sub-division, and 

 are diversified in each of these particulars. Here they may be 

 divided into such as are cultivated chiefly for the beauty of 

 their flowers, as the rhododendron, erica, &c. — for the smell, as 

 the sweet briar, absinthides, cleriodendron, jasminum, &c. — for 

 both, as the rose, Cape jasmine, &c. Others are cultivated 

 chiefly for the beauty of the leaves, as the acuba, variegated 

 holly, &c. — others for the fruit, as the mespilus pyracantha 

 and the orange; others for the beauty of the whole plant, as 

 the aristotelia, &c. but most for all of these properties together, 

 as the myrtle, lauristinus i l'a.m'e\, Sec. 



Trees form the last natural material in ornamental garden- 

 ing; and though the use of them more properly belongs to the 



