Landscape gardening in its strict sense has scarcely kept pace with what has been termed the Gardenesque of late years; and why! Simply, I suppose, from the fact that where there is one person who can appreciate the beauties of lines and forms, independent of color, there are a score who can not; but who nevertheless are, it may be, adepts at what is termed "clumping" flowers, and all the paraphernalia of the flower garden.

While, however, England sustains her position in the van of civilization, so long must true landscape gardening be fostered; and it must be confessed that we owe its preservation and encouragement mainly to our aristocracy, who are ever in a better position to appreciate its value than any other class of society.

My purpose is to draw attention to the beauties of form in certain trees and shrubs, old-fashioned kinds or not, and to point to their eligibilities, whether in the park, the ordinary pleasure grounds, or the flower garden. As country seats differ - and indeed should do so - as to their general tone or expression, sometimes through position and adventitious circumstances, and sometimes as a matter of design, it follows that a judicious adaptation of trees and shrubs becomes necessary, whether as accompaniments or as constituting a portion of the chief features of the grounds. In most of the pleasure grounds connected with the seats of our nobility and gentry, certain by-scenes, retreats, nooks, or decorative adjuncts occur, which either possess a kind of individuality, or require it to be created by the skill of the artist. Hence the necessity for a nice perception of the character and ultimate expression of trees and shrubs. The grave and the gay would be terms far too sweeping in their signification to embrace all the objects required in extensive gardens. From the mausoleum to the parterre may exist several intermediate characters, each requiring a separate impress, yet merging into each other.

For instance, there may be the rosary, the American ground, the decorated promenade, the terrace, rock-work, etc.; and as matters further from home, walks and adjuncts connected with the margins of the park, the lake, the.

*Communicated to the Journal of the London Horticultural Society, by Robert Errington, C. M. H. S., garwoodlands, the grove. It need scarcely be urged that each of these requires peculiarity of style in the trees and shrubs which are used as accompaniments. There exists, moreover, in addition, a demand for trees and shrubs adapted, to the various styles of architecture; and to the vestibule, the corridor, balustrades, arcades, the conservatory, etc.

Thus far I have pointed to a few of the chief objects, in order to show the demand for a variety and choice of materials, and to mark the existence of such, And to claim in some degree for the landscape gardener an immunity from the ordinary bondage imposed by the great goddess Fashion; the genuine landscape gardener caring more for lines and forms than gaudy colors.

Mere novelty and color, then, being set aside for a moment, I would beg to advert to what we may term style and expression in trees and shrubs, and with much deference submit the following, which is capable of amplification :

Forms - Round or Flat-headed, generally massive; Pointed or Spirt; Columnar; Fastigiate; Horizontal; Weeping.

To these common terms, as descriptive of general forms, may be added certain other characters or habits; such as the tinted, or those which impart a solemn grandeur or richness, at the season of fading, in our early autumn or winter months; feathery and light branched trees or shrubs, adapted in a special way to the vista or glade; rock-shrubs and trees, those adapted to the banks of water; climbers, creepers, twiners, berry bearers, and variegations; with the coarser and more rustic-looking things, as leading to or connected with the woodlands, the fields, or the moor.

I will now point to a few trees and shrubs in each of the classes, begging it to be understood that they may be either old or new, their suitability alone being the assumed ground of merit.