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THE PARK PINETUM. 



PT. T, 



PART V. 



THE PAEK PINETUM. 



I SHOULD like to say a word in recommendation of park 

 pinetums as contrasted with flower-garden or lawn 

 pinetums. 



As the generahty of pinuses grow by nature into 

 magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I 

 think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower- 

 gardens, shrubberies, and lawns. Lawn plants, it is 

 true, produce an instant beautiful efiect as shrubs ; and 

 as they have their boughs down to the ground, more 

 shelter, and better soil, they surpass the young park 

 plants in beauty. So the greenhouse or hothouse plant 

 surpasses the lawn plant in beauty. But in how short 

 a time does the greenhouse or lawn plant become too 

 big for its boots! and the lawn plant must be cut down 

 or mutilated, because it grows over this walk, or that 

 flower-bed, or into this window or that door. Though 

 exquisite when young, a few specimens will soon fill 

 and overgrow the lawn pinetum. They have been 

 planted as shrubs ; they are misplaced as trees ; and the 

 greater the growth, the more we have to regret the 

 position of our most favourite plants. 



