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an avenue proceeds at once to the central portico of a house, or to the principal 
part of any other edifice, with the position of which it is made to accord, it had 
much better be broken up or dispensed with. 
In addition to avenues, which are not everywhere adapted to the style of a 
place, there are those smaller and more compact groups of trees, which are dis- 
persed throughout parks and pleasure-grounds, and which are indispensable to 
ornamental effect. The masses called clumps in parks are usually little circular 
plantations, surrounded, at first, with a temporary fence. Where only from twelve 
to sixteen trees are intended to be reared in this group, we should prefer the pro- 
tection of each individually, by any of the most approved plans ; for all young 
plantations enclosed by fences have a most artificial and displeasing aspect. 
If the groups are to be large, they must necessarily be formed of a variety of 
trees, especially when they constitute the horizon from any important part of the 
grounds. But where they are limited to five or seven trees, a handsomer mass will 
be produced by having them all of one or two sorts. The most elegant and 
symmetrical groups we have ever seen were of three trees, planted so as to give 
the three corners of an equilateral triangle. The branches intermingle with each 
other, and the whole displays a pyramid or cone that looks like a gigantic and 
widely-spreading single tree. Limes, Elms, Chesnuts, Oaks, and all the round- 
headed tribe, are peculiarly well fitted for planting thus ; and, with a few masses 
of larger size, and a due proportion of solitary specimens, a park, or the space between 
the pleasure-garden and the woods, might in this manner be most appropriately 
furnished. 
We must defer the publication of the rest of this paper till the appearance of 
the next Number. 
CULTURE OF CHOROZEMA CORDATUM. 
It must often have been observed, even by those who take the most super- 
ficial views of things, that many plants which, when improperly treated or 
neglected, would be deemed unworthy of culture, become invested, by judicious 
management, with an interest and a beauty which cause all who see them to desire 
their possession. But for want of investigating and following the treatment they 
have received, their procural too frequently leads to disappointment. 
Very commonly, too, does it occur that persons who have been accustomed to 
witness certain species only in the ordinary and inferior state that is produced by 
careless and inappropriate management, or rather by an absence of all management 
whatsoever, pronounce well-cultivated specimens to be superior varieties. Similar 
mistakes have likewise been made in regard to some of the figures which we pub- 
lish in our Magazine ; and we have repeatedly been taunted with flattering or 
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