. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . at Clayton Priory, near Brighton; one at AUesley Rectory, near Co-ventry ; several at Chatsworth ; and there are various others in the neigh-bourh
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . at Clayton Priory, near Brighton; one at AUesley Rectory, near Co-ventry ; several at Chatsworth ; and there are various others in the neigh-bourhood of London, and in diflTerent parts of the country. In ornamentalplantations, the weeping willow has the most harmonious effect when in-troduced among trees of shapes as unusual as its own ; partly of the samekind, as the weeping birch, and partly of contrasted forms, as the Lombardypoplar; and the effect of these three trees is always good w hen accom-panied by water, either in a lake, as mjig. 1305., or in a stream and water-fall, as injig. 1306. Both these views are of scenery in the park at Monza.(See Emyc. of Gard., ed. 1835, p. 36.) Fig. 1037. is an example of the useof trees having drooping branches, and others having vertical branches, suchas the Lombardy poplar, in contrasting with and harmonising horizontal lines.(See Gard. Mag., vol. i. p. 117.) For further remarks on the use of the 1512 ARBORETUM AND PART weeping willow along with the Lombardy poplar, see Populus fastigiata ina future page. A large weeping willow, in a scene in which there are no other trees at allharmonising with it b} their form, however beautiful it may be in itself, alwaysmore or less injures the landscape. In Gilpins Forest Scenery, he remarksthat the weeping willow is a very picturesque tree, and a perfect contrastto the Lombardy poplar. The light airy spray of the poplar, he adds, 1306
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