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fine low shrubs, growing wild, which are by nature extremely 
well fitted for such sites, and will produce immediate effect 
on being transplanted. These may be intermingled, here 
and there, with the swamp button- bush, ( Cephalanthus ) 
which bears handsome white globular heads of blossoms? 
and the swamp magnolia, which is highly beautiful and fra- 
grant. On cool north banks, among shelves of proper soil 
upheld by projecting ledges of rock, our native Kalmias and 
Rhododendrons, the common and mountain laurels, may be 
made to flourish. The Virginia Creeper, and other beautiful 
wild vines, may be planted at the roots of some of the trees 
to clamber up their stems, and the wild Clematis so placed 
that its luxuriant festoons shall hang gracefully from the pro- 
jecting boughs of some of the overarching trees. Along the 
lower banks and closer margins, the growth of smaller plants 
will be encouraged, and various kinds of wild ferns may be 
so planted as partially to conceal, overrun, and hide the rocks 
and stumps of trees, while trailing plants, as the periwinkle 
and moneywort, ( Lysamachia nunwmlaria ,) will still far- 
ther increase the intricacy and richness of such portions. In 
this way, the borders of the lake will resemble the finest por- 
tions of the banks of picturesque and beautiful natural dells 
and pieces of water, and. the effect of the whole when time 
has given it the benefit of its softening touches, if it has been 
thus properly executed, will not be much inferior to those 
matchless bits of fine landscape. A more striking and artis- 
tical effect will be produced by substituting for native trees 
and shrubs, common on the banks of streams and lakes in 
the country, only rare foreign shrubs, vines, and aquatic 
plants of hardy growth, suitable for such situations. While 
these are arranged in the same manner as the former, from 
their comparative novelty, especially in such sites, they will 
at once convey the idea of refined and elegant art. 
