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mass to which it belongs, and considered by itself alone, shall be a 
handsome plant. Atthe same time, in order to produce as much variety 
as possible, the picturesque style of planting, in which trees and shrubs 
are so closely grouped together as partially to injure each other’s growth, 
occasionally occurs, for the sake of producing variety. With the excep- 
tion of the pines and firs, the other trees have been selected more for 
their picturesque effect and variety of foliage, than for their botanical 
interest. Among these are the Scotch pine for its darkness; the 
JPdpulus angulata for its large leaves, and for its property of preserving 
these till destroyed by severe frost, long before which all the other 
poplars have become naked ; the A'cer macrophyllum, for its large 
leaves ; the Montpelier maple, for its small ones ; the Negundo /raxini- 
fblium, for its green-barked shoots ; the American oaks, for the singular 
variety in form and colour of their foliage ; the catalpa, for its broad rich 
yellowish leaves, and its showy blossoms, which appear late in the 
season ; the deciduous cypress ; the bonduc, or Kentucky coffee tree ; 
the cut-leaved alder ; the tulip tree ; the purple beech ; the purple 
hazel ; the Oriental plane, of which there are several fine specimens ; 
the variegated sycamore, and other variegated trees and shrubs, which 
are always so beautiful in spring; those thorns and crabs which are 
beautiful or remarkable for their blossoms in the spring, and for their 
fruit in autumn ; the Nepal sorbus, so interesting for its large woolly 
leaves, which die off of a fine straw colour ; the magnolias; the rhodo- 
dendrons ; the heaths ; the brooms ; and the double-blossomed furze ; 
besides various striking or popular plants, such as the variegated hollies, 
the scarlet arbutus, etc. Among the detached trees and small groups, 
there is scarcely to be met with a single bush or tree that a general 
observer will not find noticeable for something in its foliage, general 
form, flowers, or fruit. The Magndlm grandiflora var. exoniensis flowers 
freely as a standard without any protection, and was not even injured 
by the winter of 1837-8; nor was A'rbutus procera, also unprotected. 
A number of the more rare trees and shrubs, such as Araucaria brasi^ 
liensis, which had stood out eight years, A. Cunninghams, Pin us inslgnis, 
P. palustris, P. Girardicma, P. canariensis, etc. were killed during the 
winter of 183-78 ; and a number of others, which were severely 
injured, are now recovering. Mr. Pratt, the head gardener, did not 
begin to prune the trees which were injured till the rising of the sap 
