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A considerable amount of incongruity may be occasioned, and actually exists in 
some gardens, by an attempt to engraft one style of gardening upon another, or to 
introduce one land of characteristic into a place which has previously been peculiar 
for a character of another order. It is perhaps true that, there is scarcely any pure 
style now practised in landscape-gardening ; but there are classes of landscape ar- 
rangement wholly opposite to each other which are sometimes striven to be united 
in a strange and unnatural compound. And wherever one class of disposition is 
fixed upon for a garden, or has already existed in it for years, it is most necessary 
that everything new which may be done should be carried out in the same character. 
There are several other topics on which we might remark, had we space. Indeed, 
the bearings of this question are extremely extensive and diversified. The incon- 
gruity of having the carriage entrance to a mansion in a cattle-fed pasture or park, 
instead of its being surrounded by pleasure-grounds ; of putting pieces of water any- 
where except in the lowest ground within sight ; of planting trees which are naturally 
fitted for low moist situations upon mountain sides and hill-tops, and the reverse ; 
with almost numberless others, might be individually dwelt upon and exposed But 
it must suffice for the present, as in most cases of the kind, that we have drawn 
attention thus sketchingly to a circumstance which so greatly affects the appearance 
and consequent enjoyment of a pleasure-garden. 
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This subject is thus early returned to, for one reason, because it is desirable to 
conclude one paper in the present volume, and further, in consequence of the season 
we are passing through being the most proper one to deal with the class of things 
written of. What has been advanced up to this point, embraces the most important 
part of that which necessarily requires attention ; but there is yet room for much to 
be said. In having to do with Conifers, &c, and in trying to render them justice, 
the course recommended to be taken when root-confined plants are met with, and 
the other matters relative to planting, suggests all that can be resorted to to place a 
plant in as favourable a position, as far as its doing well is concerned, as possible. But 
much that has been suggested, when it is put in force, may accomplish, it cannot 
atone for abuse a plant may have experienced, restore beauty that has been lost, or 
very seldom enable it to hide the blemish such loss involves. This is true of all 
Conifers, and evident in proportion as they are remarkable for symmetry or otherwise. 
What we regard as beauty in a Conifer is the perfect development of all its parts, 
when those parts are regularly and symmetrically disposed ; and what that beauty's 
destruction — such a state of things interfered with, whether the interference proceeds 
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