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produce breadth of effect and strong rich contrasts, that 
Uh denvood should be employed to clothe many parts of the 
banks. Without it, the stems of trees will appear loose 
and straggling, and the screen will be so imperfect as to 
allow a free passage for the vision in every direction. For 
this purpose, we have in all our woods, swamps, and along 
out brooks, an abundance of hazels, hawthorns, alders, 
sp'ce woods, winter berries, azaleas, spireas, and a hundred 
other 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 fragrant. 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 projecting 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 nummularia ), will still further 
increase the intricacy and richness of such portions. In 
this way, the borders of the lake will resemble the finest 
portions of the banks of picturesque and beautiful natural 
dells and pieces of water, and the effect of the whole when 
