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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
most beautiful accessories that are capable of being com 
bined with trees, as well as with buildings, gardens, and 
fences. 
The reader must not imagine, from the remarks which 
we have here made on the beauty and charms of climbing 
plants, that we would desire to see every tree in an 
extensive park wreathed about, and overhung with fantastic 
vines and creepers. Such is by no means our intention. 
We should consider such a proceeding something in the 
worst possible taste. There are some trees whose rugged 
and ungraceful forms would refuse all such accompani- 
ment ; and others from whose dignity and majesty it would 
be improper to detract even by adding the gracefulness of the 
loveliest vine. 
Although we are not now writing of buildings, it is not 
inappropriate here to remark how much may be done in 
the country, and indeed even in town, by using vines and 
creepers to decorate buddings. The cottage in this country 
too rarely conveys the t Jeaof comfort and happiness which 
we wish to attach to such a habitation, and chiefly because 
so often it stands bleak, solitary, and exposed to every ray 
of our summer sun, with a scanty robe of foliage to shelter 
it. How different such edifices, however humble, become 
when the porch is overhung with climbing plants. 
Almost every man feels prouder of his home when it is 
a pleasant spot for the eye to rest upon, than when it is 
situated in a desert, or overgrown with weeds. Besides 
this, tasteful embellishment has a tendency to refine the 
feelings of every member of the family ; and every leisure 
hour spent in rendering more lovely and agreeable even 
the humblest cottage, is infinitely better employed than in 
ounging about in idle and useless dissipation. 
