Trees and shrubs are distributed over the grounds of a residence, because these objects are considered the most effective in producing the kind of beauty which is desirable in the country. To trees and shrubs are added flowers, as minor ornaments. The question that we are now to consider is, the principles to be followed in the distribution of the trees and shrubs, and of those finishing ornaments, the flowers. The two sources from which we naturally seek instruction in this matter are, the practice of planters and landscape-gardeners hitherto; and the mode in which trees, shrubs, and flowers are distributed in nature. Till within the last two or three centuries,

- the number of trees, shrubs, and common garden flowers, in cultivation in any country did not amount, in the number of kinds, to one hundredth part of what axe now common to the gardens, not only of Britain, but of the temperate regions of the globe in both hemispheres. The distribution of this small number of plants, by gardeners, was formerly as simple as their number was few. All the woods of a place were formed of two or three kinds of trees, planted in rows or in masses, in the geometrical style, which we need not here describe; and the flowers were placed in a compartment near the bouse, walled or hedged round. The lesson, therefore, to be learned from the geometrical style is abundantly easy.