THE GARDEN BEAUTIFUL. 



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THE GARDEN BEAUTIFUL. 



HOME LANDSCAPE AND HOME WOODS. 

 WATER. 



We must take good examples wherever we 

 find them, and here is a garden scene sent us 

 from New Zealand, which has some good 

 points about it, as to the use of right vegetation 

 in such places. The Weeping Willow seems 

 even more at home there than in some parts 

 of our country. It is curious that over a large 

 part of England this tree should be absent, 

 no doubt owing to some delicacy of consti- 

 tution, as thousands have been planted. They 



Willows, Dogwood, and Poplars — and these 

 trees embrace a wide range of variety. In 

 getting away from them to the variegated or 

 other choice shrubs nine times out of ten we 

 go wrong. Waterside planting should consist 

 mainly of waterside trees, shrubs, and plants, 

 the form of graceful painted leaves, and the 

 habit and colour of the trees and shrubs being 

 those best of all for the situation. And we 

 cannot do better than follow this by printing 



RIVERSIDE PLANTING. {Engraved for FLORA.) 



seem to thrive best near the sea and in shel- 

 tered gardens near the coast. Happily there 

 are now other Willows, which in a northern 

 country may take the place of these, such as 

 the Weeping Yellow Willow. Waterside 

 planting demands its own natural vegetation 

 more than any other planting. Throughout 

 the whole of the northern world there are trees 

 and shrubs which frequent the waterside — 



the observations of Thomas Whately, one 

 of the best writers on water : " Considering 

 water merely as an object, no other is so apt 

 to seize and fix the attention. In a garden, 

 water is generally imitative. That which in 

 the open country would be called a great pond, 

 here assumes the name, and should be shaped 

 as if it had the extent of a lake ; for it is large 

 in proportion to the other parts of the place. 



