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deur, of variety, of novelty, and, I may add, of winter comfort, 

 that I never saw adopted in any other place on so magnificent 

 a scale. 



The contrast of passing from a wood of deciduous trees to a 

 wood of evergreens must be felt by the most heedless observer; 

 and the same sort of pleasure, though in a weaker degree, would 



rive, if the trees of different kinds 

 were collected in small groups or masses by themselves, instead 



felt 



the 



of aD 



of being blended indiscriminately, 

 separate groves or woods of different trees 



not mean to m 



ake 





although that has 

 its beauty, but in the course of the Drive to let Oaks prevail in 



some 



parts to 



thei 



Beech in others, Birch in 

 irage such masses of Thorr 



third 



and in some 



Hazels and M 



a 



or o 



3r brushwood 

 thickets of a forest. 



f low growth, as might best imitate th 



e 



It is difficult to lay down 



s 



which may ultimately be useful to this purp 



» 



for any system of planting- 



Tim 



dent, will often produce 



pected beauties 



gleet, 

 The 





gardener or nurseryman makes his holes at equal distances 



generally in straight row 



he then fills them with plants, and 



same sort near each other; 



carefully avoids putting two of th 



nor is it very easy to make him put two trees into the same hoi 



he considers them as cabbages 



? 



other s growth 



turnips, which will rob each 





unless placed at equal distances 



we most admire those doubl 



yet in forests 



e trees, or thick clusters, whose 



stems seem to rise from the same root 

 models in ornamental planting. 



these should b 



