TREES AND SHRUBS. 



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accompaniments of the broad sea^ or of the blue ridgy 

 mountaiQ. Trees^ shrubs, and flowers, are their prin- 

 cipal means of ornament. Devoid of these, they would 

 only be like a house in a bare field, or " a lodge in a 

 garden of cucumbers/^ 



In the villa grounds trees cannot be formed into 

 woods, but they should be introduced into the larger 

 masses of shrubs so as to heighten their effect ; in other 

 places they may be sprinkled on the remoter parts of the 

 lawns, and so may unite with the former in making up 

 an appearance of woodland scenery. Some of the more 

 rapidly growing kiuds should be inserted in the shrub- 

 beries of new-made places, for the purpose of imparting 

 a clothed effect at an earlier period than can be accom- 

 plished by shrubs alone, but where not intended to 

 remain, they should be carefully weeded out when the 

 object wanted has been attained by their neighbours of 

 slower growth. Breadths of trees and shrubs are needed 

 to clothe and diversify even a small place when new, but 

 they should not be planted to the extent of over-crowding, 

 and should be rigidly thinned out at the proper time. 

 A greater variety of kinds may be introduced into a 

 small residence than into an equal space in a large park 

 or pleasure-ground; for two trees or half-a-dozen of 

 shrubs, tall and well grown, will produce in the former a 

 mass of foliage and a breadth of effect which would have 

 but an insignificant appearance in the latter. The oak, 

 elm, horse-chestnut, and plane may be admitted, but 

 only in comparatively small quantities of each, in order 

 to leave room for the ordinary hardy exotic trees and 

 shrubs, which in a smaU place produce a variety and 

 awaken an interest not to be derived ficom the most 

 skilfal arrangement of the more common sorts. Small 



