TOWN AND SMALL £ 



will be found of advantage. Vertical 

 espaliers, fig. 791 to 795, may be used 

 with equal effect. 



Herbs. — Every garden, however small, 

 should have a small space dedicated to 

 the growth of herbs for seasoning and 

 domestic purposes, and these should be 

 always grown by themselves, as being- 

 more conveniently got when wanted. 

 For list of herbs, &c, vide Olitory, 

 vol. II. 



Trees. — Few trees can be admitted, 

 with propriety, into any garden of the 

 kind we are alluding to at present. The 

 lime has been a popular city tree for 

 ages ; it bears cutting and training, so as 

 to form a sort of verdant wall, and for 

 this purpose is much used on the Con- 

 tinent. The laburnum, although seldom 

 employed, is preferable, more suited to 

 the atmosphere, and very beautiful while 

 in flower. The almond, where the climate 

 is mild enough, cheers us in early spring 

 with its magnificent peach-coloured blos- 

 som ; the acacia, with the gracefulness 

 of its foliage, and, when of sufficient age, 

 with its beautiful racemes of flowers. Its 

 only defect is the brittleness of its 

 branches, and their liability to be broken 

 with the wind. Whoever has a stream 

 passing through his garden, or a pond of 

 water, cannot choose a more appropriate 

 tree than the weeping willow, immor- 

 talised since the Babylonian captivity, and 

 in modern times by Pope the poet, and the 

 memory of Napoleon I. It is the most 

 graceful of all weeping trees, and associ- 

 ates both in landscape and in connection 

 with buildings, where its kinsman the 

 weeping ash would only be regarded as a 

 monstrosity, the fit inhabitant of a Lon- 

 don tea-garden. Few of the Coniferae, 

 with the exception of the cedar of Leba- 

 non and Deodar, will live in confined 

 places, or even in villa gardens of con- 

 siderable extent : their effect is scarcely 

 worth the room they occupy. Salix an- 

 nularis and Napoleona are graceful small- 

 ish trees ; and Ailanthus glandulosa, 

 Aralia japonica, Araucaria imbricata, 

 Catalpa syringsefolia, Broussonetia papy- 

 rifera, Cercis siliquastrum, Gleditschia 

 triacanthos, horrida; Kolreuteria pani- 

 culata, Liriodendron tulipifera, Paulownia 

 imperialis, Magnolia grandiflora, acumi- 

 nata, Salisburia adiantifolia, &c, are all 

 to be preferred to our elms, poplars, &c, 



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with which most small gardens are im- 

 poverished under ground, and shaded 

 above. These, we should observe, for the 

 gardens of northern amateurs, stand the 

 climate at Dalkeith : some trees of them 

 there are of considerable size and age. 



Deciduous shrubs. — Most of the follow- 

 ing are too seldom met with in villa 

 gardens : — Amygdalus nana, nana flore- 

 pleno, Aralia spinosa, Caragana Cham- 

 lagu, spinosa; Cercis canadensis; Crataegus, 

 most of the genera ; Cytisus, most of the 

 genera — if wrought as standards, they 

 make fine lawn-plants. Cydonia japonica 

 makes beautiful scarlet-flowering hedges. 

 Halesia diptera, tetraptera ; Liquidam- 

 bar styraciflua, imberbe ; Robinia hispida, 

 pseudo - acacia, var. macrophylla, var. 

 grandiflora, var. pendula, var. crispa ; 

 Berberis vulgaris fol. violacea ; Colutea 

 cruenta, frutuosa ; Dirca palustris ; Gen- 

 ista — most of the genus, when wrought 

 as standards, make fine lawn-plants ; 

 Hibiscus, all the varieties of H. syriacus ; 

 Hypericum chinense, nepaulense; Maclura 

 aurantiaca ; Magnolia conspicua, obovata ; 

 Paeonia Moutan ; Purshia tridentata ; 

 Rhus, most of the genus ; Ribes, most of 

 the genera ; Spiraea arisefolia, bella, 

 Douglassi, Lindleyana, pruni folia flore- 

 pleno ; Syringa Emodi ; Notyce, Sauge- 

 ana, Josiksea ; Weigela rosea ; Andro- 

 meda, many of the species ; Azalea, most 

 of the recently originated hybrid varieties; 

 Rhodora canadensis. 



Evergreen shrubs. — Acacia Julibrissin ; 

 Cerasus ilicifolia ; Euonymus japonicus, 

 var. argenteus, wr. aureus, latifolia ; Ilex 

 aestivalis, angustifolia, atro-virens, crassi- 

 folia, latifolia, excelsa, with a host of cu- 

 rious varieties of I. Aquifolium; Photinia 

 glabra, dubia, serrulata, arbutifolia; Quer- 

 cus coccifera, suber ; of Q. Ilex, the vars. 

 ilicifolia, Fordi, rotundifolia, Ballota, lati- 

 folia, Shepherdi ; Benthamia fragifera ; 

 Berberis, most of the evergreen species ; 

 Buxus balearica; Cistus, most of the genus; 

 Colletia ferox, spinosa ; Cotoneaster, most 

 of the genus. Many of these, when 

 trained as standards, make fine lawn- 

 plants, and all of them excellent covering 

 for rocks, old walls, or other objects which 

 it may be desirable to hide. Daphne, all 

 the hardy species ; Escallonia, all the ge- 

 nera ; Fabiana imbricata ; Fontanesia 

 phillyrseoides ; Garrya elliptica ; Laurus 

 sassafras colchicus, Benzoin; Mahonia, 



