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PARKS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS. 



and miniature lawns, where, if it thrives, as we de- 

 sire it may, it will speedily overshadow every thing 

 else. We would strongly urge the extensive but con- 

 siderate planting of this fine tree. 



(2.) The second general form of trees is a varied 

 one, and may be held as embracing three subordinate 

 figures : the rounded cone of the Scotch fir, and some 

 others of its class, and generally of the holly; the 

 truncated cone of the silver fir ; and the spiry, elon- 

 gated cone of the various spruces, larches, Swiss Cem- 

 bran pine, and perhaps the deciduous cypress. Many 

 of the pines lately introduced, such as P. excelsa, 

 Lambertiana, SaMniana, macrocaf'pa, are certainly 

 pyramidal, and will fall under one or other of these 

 subdivisions when aged. Indeed, the whole class of 

 conifers assume their final form only when far advanced 

 in growth. 



The Holly is almost the only broad-leaved tree of 

 this group. It is generally of a low, bushy form, 

 rounded, but sometimes also with a spiry cone. Grow- 

 ing in woods, and on a light soil, we have seen it sixty 

 feet in height, and with a trunk eight feet in circum- 

 ference. It may be planted in the dressed grounds, 

 and also in the woods of the park, as underwood, 

 among deciduous trees. When scattered along the 

 outskirts of a recess or glade, it has a fine effect in 

 thickening the mass and deepening the shade. 



The Scotch Mr has been planted to a much greater 

 extent than any other fir, in Great Britain and Ire- 

 land. No tree has been more decried and condemned 

 as being ugly ; and certainly, in many cases this dis- 

 praise has been deserved ; a close, ill-thinned, and 

 worse-pruned plantation of this tree, on a flat and 



