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observe, that symmetry, or an exact correspondence of pari 

 assists the eye in viewing and comprehending the whole object 



at 



once; but irregularity retards th 



e progress 



of vision; and 



from the difficulty of comprehending the whole, its magnitude 

 increases on the imagination. (This subject is further explained 

 in my first printed work, Sketches and Hints on Landscape 

 Gardening.) 



" The Hills at Longleate have been boldly planted, and at 

 the same period many fast growing trees were planted in 



th 



e 



valleys; these latter were become in many places too tall for 

 their situation. There are some limes and planes, and lofty 

 elms, near the water, in situations where maples and crabs, and 

 thorns and alders, or even oaks and chesnuts, would have been 

 far more appropriate: an 



there are some few tall shattered 



trees remaining 



of th 



e avenue near the house, which tend to 



depress its importance.* 



" It is a mistaken idea, that the planter may not live to see 

 is future woods, unless they consist of firs and larche-, or 

 planes and other fast growing trees; but every day's experience 



evinces, that man outlives his trees, where plantations do not 



consist of oak ; and that often tall mutilated planes, or woods of 



? 



naked stemmed Scotch firs, remind him, that groups of >aks 



and groves of chesnut might 



have been planted with greater 



* Since this Report was delivered, almost all the objectionable trees have been re- 

 moved by a spring blight, which destroyed so many Planes in every part of England ; 

 and the place has been greatly improved in consequence. 



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