318 MANAGEMENT OF [chap. ix. 
parental fondness; and a new and daily in¬ 
creasing interest is given to life. I would, 
therefore, most earnestly entreat my readers 
to study trees and shrubs; and I do assure 
them that they will find themselves amply 
repaid, not only by the pleasure they will 
have in landscape gardening, but in the ad¬ 
ditional enjoyment their accession of know¬ 
ledge will give to every country walk and 
ride that they take. 
There is, however, one great ^drawback to 
the pleasure that may be anticipated from 
planting an arboretum, or even an illustra- 
tion of any particular order or genus; and 
this is the very great difficulty that exists in 
procuring plants true to their names. Nur¬ 
serymen put down a great many more names 
in their catalogues, than they have different 
kinds of plants; and thus the same plants, 
like the actors in a country theatre, are often 
made to perform under a great many different 
names in the same piece. I have heard of 
instances where twelve or fourteen species 
were named in a catalogue, though the nur¬ 
seryman only possessed three or four, which, 
when wanted, were made to do duty under 
