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instruction. Of course we do not msL. that every bush 

 and tree within the enclosure should be labelled : we only 

 propose that some definite portion of the trees, shrubs, and 

 other plants should be arranged and named for this special 

 purpose. Besides the information actually conveyed, and 

 the inquiries as to uses suggested, such arrangements 

 would exhibit, in an interesting manner, the wonderful 

 adaptation of our climate for the growth of plants from 

 the milder and colder regions of the globe. They would 

 display in one group the magnificent cedars of Lebanon, 

 of Atlas, and of the Himalayas, together with the firs 

 of Siberia and the Pyrenees, of Scotland and California, 

 of the Mediterranean and the Oregon, of Norway and 

 Nepal. In a second they would show us the broad oak 

 of Old England, the cut-leaved oak of Turkey, the ever- 

 green oak of Spain, and the red oak of America, with 

 the sycamore of Britain and the sugar-maple of Canada. 

 In a third we might find the Arbutus of Ireland, the 

 Andrachne of the Levant, the PJiillyrea of Italy, the 

 lilacs of Persia and China, and the Aucuba of Japan. 

 Manifold are the interesting and instructive combinations 

 that might be formed, and they could all be effected at 

 an expense very little beyond that which is necessarily 

 incm-red in the planting of ordinary trees and shrubs. 



Educational Institutions. — It may not be much out of 

 place to add a few remarks ia regard to the somewhat 

 cognate subject of gardens or pleasure-grounds attached 

 to some great educational institutions — cognate at least 

 in this respect, that these grounds, as well as the public 

 park, might be made the means of communicating im- 

 portant instruction. It should seem, indeed, that they 

 would promise more in this respect than places set apart 

 for the common resort of the citizens ; and yet this pro- 



