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beautiful in a tree, the varied hues of the flowery parterre, or the enlivening 
and sight-strengthening shade of the green grass lawn, unless they take the 
reverse portion of the parlor window, and walk to the opposite parts of the 
grounds. It only requires a moment's reflection to conceive, what a hetero- 
geneous confusion is the result of such a case, and how much of the present 
disappointment might have been avoided, if more attention had been bestow- 
ed upon the habits and relative capacity of each specimen, by having placed 
them in positions, from which their various pretensions to regard, could 
have been seen to advantage. Now is the time to forecast these prelimi- 
naries, and a little thought ahead may save much after vexation. 
A few words may not be out of place with respect to the indiscriminate 
disposition of evergreens amongst deciduous shrubs and trees, and that, too, 
often without any regard to the habits of the closest neighbors ; fancy a 
rigid pyramidal silver fir, fixed in close proximity with a naked branched 
weeping willow, reminding one of a starched dandy, and lamenting hypo- 
condriacism, struggling shoulder to shoulder ; yet each individually, or in 
company with others more closely related, and planted in proper places are 
beautiful objects, and would give most pleasing sensations. Again, the 
Japan Euonymus or the Tree Box, of more humble growth, may be seen 
standing in full dress amongst nakedness, and appearing as if they were 
only accidental residents ; while an increased numher of their own kind, in 
association with others of similar character, would form a most lively feature 
in the way of masses, or as undulating boundaries to the lawn, and which 
would not only be a great improvement, but assist in stripping old Boreas 
of half his terrors around the country dwelling. 
January 2M. Wm. Chorlton. 
