66 



y 



growth or shape of different kinds. Thus the beech and th 



e 



h will admit of a view under their branches 



9 



will admit of 



lower branches being cut; while the fir tribe and conic-shaped 



trees will not. 



The annexed Landscape is composed of those materials 

 which may rather be called tame and beautiful, than romantic 



picturesque. It consists of 



quietly winding through 



a valley; a tower on the summit of a wooded promontory, and 



a fcrttage at the foot of the hill; a distant village spire, and more 

 distant hills, 



a foreground 



mark the course of the valley: to all this is added 



isting of two large trees to the left, and three 



small ones to the right 



The former can never be supposed to grow much larger, 

 •"» »he latter may in time fill the whole space now occupied by 

 the dark cloud over them; and in so doing they will neither in- 



jure the Landscape, nor hid 



any of its leading features 



me now direct the attention to the two small fir trees 



foreground 



Let 

 in the 



which appear so out of charact 



with the scene 



and so misplaced, that they offend even as they are here repre 



but we must remember, that in a few years these trees 



se nted 



and also 



will grow so high as to out-top the tower on the hill 



pread out their side branches, till they meet, to the total exclu 



B Landscap 



U the valley, and all that we admire in th 



should only shade 



n« the hand which 



placed before the eyes 



will then 



e 



) 



wind, and dust 



at once. 



d the Landscape, as well as the sun 



would be better excluded by a Venetian blind 





