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PREFACE. 
landscape gardener in the creation of taste and effect ; 
but have written with a view to meet a popular and 
general want of the public when performing their 
own planting, as brought to my knowledge in my 
professional life. 
If the hints here offered assist, even to a limited 
extent, in creating more judicious placing of tree or 
shrub in private gardens or public cemeteries, the 
object of writing will be accomplished; and with 
hope thereof it is offered to the public. 
, Cleveland, Ohio, June , 1868. 
