value of the practice in gardens of massing, and 
of mingling, the gay tints which the gardener has 
to deal with. Some arguments on this subject 
have certainly been wasted, on account of the in- 
compatibility of generalized comparisons. Gar- 
dens, to be suitable to one style or the other, must 
differ in arrangement and circumstances. Com- 
partments, each blazing with a single colour, hav- 
ing a suitable geometrical arrangement, may be 
made productive of fine effect as a whole ; but if 
this be the contents of the garden— if there be no 
mixed or miscellaneous plants scattered about to 
excite the search of the botanist or florist, he will 
retire with a partial gratification. One — even one 
new and unknown plant, found in the mingled 
assemblage of exotics, would leave a more pleasura- 
ble — a more lasting, impression on his mind, than 
any gaudy show of colour, that old and familiar 
subjects could possibly produce. On the other 
hand, the general observer, or the architect, devoid 
of a knowledge of, or feeling for, the individual 
members of the garden, may be fully satisfied with 
looking on the compound without analysis. Few 
would admire the science or the taste of the ento- 
mologist, whose whole collection was made to con- 
sist of a single colossal case, with twenty compart- 
ments, one filled with dozens of peacock butterflies, 
another with as many purple emperors, and so on 
through the twenty divisions, to the exclusion of 
all the more interesting families of the insect king- 
dom. Still, if our entomologist had well-stored 
cabinets of miscellaneous species, the objection to 
his fancy for a display would at once subside. 
