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Returning from the forest and farmers’ 
fields to the landlords’ pleasure grounds, 
a great variety of ornamental trees and tall 
shrubs attract our notice. Such as Acca- 
cia. Bird Cherry, Black Cherry, Elder, 
variegated Holly, Laburnum, Laurel, 
Maple, double-flowering Thorns, Snowball 
Geulderose, Quinces, Mulberries, Med- 
lar, &c. &c. 
A very beautiful variety of those trees 
and shrubs, is produced by grafting, by 
nurserymen ; and are sold at various prices 
according to the general catalogue. They 
may be planted either single or in little 
groves, on grass-lawns; and some of the 
most elegant may be introduced nearer the 
windows of the dwelling-house. 
No pains ought to be spared in securing 
single trees, whether they are meant for 
ornament or use ; otherwise disappointment 
will follow, and the planter will have the 
mortification to find that his labor has been 
in vain. 
The best and most simple method of se- 
curing young trees, in orchards or in grass- 
lawns, where they are liable to be damaged 
by hares, &c., is to tie a wreath of briers 
or sloe-thorns gently round the stem. — The 
