It must be evident, that the grounds of what may be called full-grown villas, of this kind, require to be managed in a different manner, either from large villas where there is abundance of room, or from small villas which have been comparatively recently planted. In the recent villa, and in the villa with abundance of room, the smallest flowering shrubs, such as roses, spirï¾µas, honeysuckles, azaleas, &c., may be cultivated in the shrubberies; but, in the full-grown villa, it is in vain to attempt anything of this kind, except, as we have just remarked, in open airy parts of them. In the progressive culture and management of such villas, therefore, all shrubs and trees, as they become naked below, overshadowed by others, or unsightly in form from any cause whatever, ought to be removed; and the whole attention, as far as respects the old plants of the place, directed to the production and preservation of fine specimens; and these should stand at such a distance, as to admit, beneath them, either of the keeping up of a smooth green turf, or of an undergrowth of evergreens, such as the holly, box, laurel, rhododendron, &c.
