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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
of tall trees newly planted on a lawn, or effecting a union 
between buildings and ground. It is true that it requires 
something of an artist’s feeling and perception of the pictu- 
resque to do these successfully, but the result is so much the 
more pleasing and satisfactory when it is well executed. 
When walks are continued from the house through dis- 
tant parts of the pleasure-grounds, groups of shrubs may be 
planted along their margins, here and there, with excellent 
effect. They do not shut out or obstruct the view like large 
trees, while they impart an interest to an otherwise tame and 
spiritless walk. Placed in the projecting bay, round which 
the walk curves so as to appear to be a reason for its taking 
that direction, they conceal also the portion of the walk in 
advance, and thus enhance the interest doubly. The neigh- 
bourhood of rustic seats, or resting points, are also fit places 
for the assemblage of a group or groups of shrubs. 
For the use of those who require some guide in the selec- 
tion of species, we subjoin the accompanying list of hardy 
and showy shrubs, which are at the same time easily procured 
in the United States. A great number of additional species 
and varieties, and many more rare, might be enumerated, 
but such will be sufficiently familiar to the connoisseur 
already ; and what we have said respecting botanical rarities 
in flowering plants may be applied with equal force to shrubs, 
viz : that in order to produce a billiant effect, a few well 
chosen species, often-repeated, are more effective than a great 
and ill-assorted melange. 
In the following list, the shrubs are divided into two clas- 
ses — No. 1 designating those of medium size, or low growth , 
and No. 2, those which are of the largest size. 
