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PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



our own native trees in grandeur, grace, and beauty. 

 Our oaks, elms, maples, hickorys, all of many varie- 

 ties ; the black-walnut, butternut, chestnut, white- 

 wood or tulip ; the poplars, birches, beeches, ashs, 

 larch, and several other deciduous trees, of the North- 

 ern and Middle states ; together with their evergreen 

 pines, hemlocks, spruces, and firs — all trees of the 

 first rank in size, and some of them of great height — 

 will compare advantageously with the best trees of 

 Europe, and far excel the most remarkable British 

 specimens of native production ; and where we pos- 

 sess within our own forests such a wealth of trees, in 

 all that constitutes true ornament, as well as utility, 

 it is scarcely worth while to rack our brains, or exhaust 

 our purses, to go abroad for others. Our Southern 

 states produce many of the trees we have named ; to 

 which may be added, the live-oak, cypress, magnolia, 

 and others — all appropriate for park-planting, in their 

 own favorite regions. 



Of shrub trees, large and small, almost any desired 

 number may be found in the immediate vicinity of 

 any park-ground in the country. Many of them are 

 of exceeding beauty, and of all required character 

 and variety. It is unnecessary that they be here enu- 

 merated. The ready observation of the inquirer will 

 at once supply his demands ; or, that being at fault, 

 the volumes of Michaux, and of ISTuttal, will suggest 

 more than his most liberal wants can require. 



One indispensable element of success, in the culti- 

 vation of both tree and shrub, must be observed by 

 all planters ; and that is, a congeniality of soil and 

 climate to the tree or shrub in question. Many trees 

 and shrubs will flourish alike in different soils — the 



