5 L 2 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



garden at Croom utterly disfigured; and 

 even a group of magnificent cypress near the 

 Rotunda trimmed into obelisks, and the 

 branches bound round with wire, lest a stray 

 twio; should endeavour to relieve the de- 

 formity. 



If what has been said upon the advantage 

 of trees near the house has any foundation 

 in taste, it follows that the same principle 

 dictates the planting of trees in similar situ- 

 ations. In doing this, though the immediate 

 result will bear no comparison with that of 

 old trees left ; yet you have an opportunity of 

 choice, both as to situation and character of 

 tree, for future effect, which should be care- 

 fully attended to ; and then the group may be 

 thickened with undergrowth, both for shelter 

 and present appearance. It will be obvious 

 that these standard trees should be suited to 

 the soil, and the lawn carried under the group 

 as soon as can be effected. Sir Henry Stewart's 

 very ingenious treatise upon the transplant- 

 ing of trees will be found highly useful in 

 forming these foregrounds, as it directs the 

 choice of tree, as well as the mode of re- 

 moval, so as to produce at once the desired 

 effect, 



