33G TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



our more recently mtrodviced conifers, where they are likely to 

 produce a really profitable crop. 



It is in such masses that trees of all kinds, if they are on their 

 proper soil and situation, are most likely to display their true 

 characteristics ; hence true beauty. There must be no patching 

 here. Let everything be conceived and done in proportion to the 

 extent of the work. No petty intermingling of patches of colour 

 here and there will either add or detract from the general beauty 

 of the design, if done in the way indicated. Where utility is 

 accomplished, beauty exists ; and where proportion of design and 

 harmony of outline and colour form the chief points, then the 

 landscape may be said to be pleasing to the eye, and beautiful to 

 the senses. 



