Trees & Shrubs for English Plantations: A Selection and Description (Classic Reprint)

The primaxy object of this work is to fiimisli infor. mation which may induce and enable that numerous and increasing class of persons who are fond of arbori culture, and who take an interest in the formation or improvement of shrubberies, plantations, and parks, Jto avail themselves of all the resources at their comj mand. Of the vast extent of those resources they are mostly unaware. Few know whilst all might, and ought to know that there are upwards of 600 trees and shrubs of surpassing beauty, each preeminent for various merits of its own, as regards foliage, flower, fruit, aspect, etc., that will grow in this country in the open air. These afford materials for grouping, with a view to effect, which have never been utilised to nearly the extent of which they are susceptible. Like the colours on a painters palette, by the selection and combination of which he makes his canvas glow with beautiful forms and harmonious tints, so the infinite variety of outline and colour in trees affords scope for so arranging them as to produce most striking results, both in home views and distant landscapes.
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