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intricacy and variety; his clumps, always formal, were rarely connected 
with each other, or with his belts of planting, and the outlines of his 
plantations were curves or segments of circles, of a greater or less radius, 
and have consequently a monotonous appearance. So far as we are judges, 
the art of massing forest trees, so as to produce irregularity of outline 
and depth of light and shade, was not understood or unpractised by 
Brown, as the same objection may be taken against his surface lines, 
where easy slopes and levels everywhere prevailed, and where the 
breadth and repose of his grass lawns were frequeatly intruded upon 
by his circular clumps of trees. We have seen several places laid out 
by Brown, where the natural features of the situations themselves were 
bold and striking, but which had been partly destroyed by the 
introduction of the ever-recurring clumps and formal water. Only the 
other day we witnessed the fine effect produced by sweeping down, en 
masse, several of these intrusive clumps (all Beech) in the immediate 
foreground of a nobleman’s mansion; not only by giving increased breadth 
to the park lawn, but by allowing the irregular outline of a fine old 
wood in the distance to come prominently into view. 
Next came Repton, a gentleman of taste, and with an artistic eye to 
order, method, and propriety. Brought up originally to mercantile pursuits, 
he was, nevertheless, an accomplished scholar and gentleman—a clever 
artist with his pencil, and no less so with his pen. It is not surprising, 
therefore, that when he undertook the profession of landscape gardener, his 
position as a gentleman, added to the suavity of his manners, and the zeal 
with which he entered into a pursuit so agreeable to his tastes, should 
render him the ar5iifer elegantiarum of the fashionable world, in all matters 
pertaining to his profession—which included consultations in architecture 
as well as landscape gardening. Mr. Repton, in fact, became the adviser 
as well as friend of royalty and greater part of the nobility and gentry, 
and was fully occupied in his profession up nearly to the period of his 
death in 1817. 
We must look at his works in our next. M. A. 
{To he continued). 
NOTES ON THE AURICULA BLOOM OP 1857 IN THE 
NORTH. 
The backward season and cold easterly winds that have prevailed so 
much this spring were very much against the full development of the 
beauties of the finest sorts of our Auriculas, as nearly all flowers of very 
fine substance are apt to cup in this cold clime ; and this season, for 
want of that moist warm atmosphere so congenial to the blooming of the 
Auricula, this was particularly the case, and some of our flattest lying 
flowers had their petals very much twisted; still, with that attention 
and perseverance so characteristic of the Scotch, in watching and 
protecting them, there was, generally speaking, a very good bloom. 
The following observations are notes of scarce or new flowers, and such 
as are not much known, some of which are great improvements on the 
old sorts, while some are not in my hunible opinion, and they are 
