Ornamental Department. 
GEfiERflii Remarks. 
The people in this country have scarcely begun to realize the commercial value of an investment of 
a few dollars judiciously expended in a few Ornamental Trees and Plants to our homes Many of our 
most active business men are also men of taste, and would be glad to improve and beautify their 
grounds, but they are so occupied with business that they have neither the time nor disposition to find 
out what they want, or to lay out their grounds. Some competent man can generally be found to aid 
in the matter. 
\N ind-breaks of trees, more especially if they are evergreen, make the dwelling-house warmer, give 
comfort to its inmates, diminishing to no inconsiderable extent the consumption of fuel : they make 
the out-building warmer for stock by night, and the yard by day, not only making the dumb animals 
comfortable, but thereby saving a large amount of food. 
HOW TO PLANT, &c. 
Grass and trees are always charming, and need but little care. In the laying out and planting have 
regard to economy of labor. Let there be as few walks as possible ; cut your flower beds (not many) 
m tlie turf, and don’t make the lawn a checker- board of trees and shrubs. Mass them in boundary 
lines or m groups, leaving a broad expanse of green for the eye to rest on, and the mower to sweep 
freely over. If an unpleasant object is in sight conceal it by planting free-growing trees ; if tnere is a 
pretty view leave an opening. While it is not well to have large trees near the house, there should lie 
at least one by the sunny corner for summer shade. Plant flowering shrubs and the smaller evergreens 
in circles or ovals, and twice as thick or close as they should stand when fully grown. This will make 
a show at once, and in two years or more you can take out one half, leaving the rest to fill out the 
space, and obtaining a supply of finely-rooted plants to set somewhere else. Where the ground is 
wholly given up to trees and shrubs, it should be deeply and thoroughly prepared before 
planting. Keep the earth cultivated, and the shrubs and trees mulched the first two seasons, and then 
let the turf grow about them. Mow' the grass frequently, and top dress with fine manure every Fall 
aud Winter. 
Straggling growers, like the Forsythia and Pyrus Japonica, may be repeatedly pinched back or 
clipped during the growing season, to produce a close, compact form. Weigelas and Deutzias should 
be pruned back each year to the old wood. A very beautiful hedge can be made by intermingling dif- 
ferent Flow ering Shrubs, and clipping, or allowing them to grow' naturally. 
TREES, SHRUBS, ETC., FOR ORNAMENT. 
A detailed description of desirable trees and shrubs would be little less than a recapitulation or list 
contained in our catalogue of Ornamentals, to which readers are referred. A grouping together ac- 
cording to the times of flowering or size of growth will, however, be found useful. We would suggest 
the follow ing as among the most desirable. 
Flowering Shrubs. Altheas, blue, purple, red, white, pink and variegated. Almond, pink and 
white. Ualycanthus or sweet scented Shrub. Currants, crimson and yellow' flowering. Daphne 
pink and rose. Deutzia, white and rose. Hydrangea, pink and white. Plum, double-flowering pink’ 
Japan Quince, red and w'hite. Spireas, white and rose. Syringa. white. Snowball, w'hite. Viburnum 
Plicatum, white. Weigelia, rose and w hite. 
Flowering Trees. Magnolia, white and purple. Judas Tree, pink. Peach, pink and white 
Laburnum, yellow. Fringe Tree, w’hite and purple. Honeysuckle Tartarian, red and white. Straw’- 
berry Tree, red and w'hite. Horse Chestnut, red and w'hite. Cherry .'white. Catalpa, white and purple 
Thorns, pink, scarlet, red and white. Cornus Florida, w'hite and pink. 
Cut- Leaved Trees. Imperial Cut- Leaved Alder, Fern-Leaved Beech, Cut-Leaved Birch, Weir’s 
Cut-Leaved Maple. 
Purple-Leaved Trees and Shrubs. Purple-Leaved Beech, Purple-Leaved Berberrv, Purple- 
Leaved liirch, Purple-Leaved Elm, Purple-Leaved Filbert, Purple-Leaved Maple, Purple-Leaved Oak 
Purple or Blood-Leaved Peach. 
Deciduous Upright Trees. Sugar, Norway, and Sycamore Maples. European and Oak- 
Leaved Mountain Ash. Birch, Pyramidalis. American Chesntut. Salisburia Elm. Lindens, European 
and White- Leaved. 
Variegated-Leaved Trees and Shrubs. Variegated -Leaved Alder, Variegated-Leaved 
Cornus, Variegated-Leaved Deutzia, Variegated Honeysuckle, Variegated -Leaved Weigela. etc. 
Weeping Trees. Willow, Kilmarnock ; Birch, Cut-Leaved Weeping, Elegans, Pendula, aud 
Young’s Weeping ; European Ash and Mountain Ash, Linden, Dwarf Weeping Cherry, Poplar, Cam- 
perdown Elm, Weeping Cornus, and Weeping Mulberry. 
Evergreens. Among the Shrubs are Mahonia Aquifolia, yellow blossoms; Rhododendrons, rose 
purple an. i w Lute color; Tree Box. often used for shearing into fantastic shapes : Dwarf Arbor Vitae ; 
Dwarf or Mountain Pine, hardy and fine colored. 
The Norway Spruce and Amerieau Arbor Vitae are the best knowm of Evergreens. Either as single 
trees or in hedges they are indispensable. The Black and White Spruce vary in shade of color as their 
names indicate. The White Pine, light and graceful in its foliage; the Scotch, angular, spreading, 
