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perspective. An inferior grace of the same kind may 

 be often introduced, only by distinguishing the boles 

 of some trees in the wood itself, and keeping down the 

 thicket beneath them. Where this cannot be well 

 executed, still the outline may be filled with such 

 trees and shrubs as swell out in the middle of their 

 growth and diminish at both ends; or with such as 

 rise in a slender cone ; with those whose branches tend 

 upwards ; or whose base is very small in proportion to 

 their height ; or which are very thin of boughs and of 

 leaves. In a confined garden scene which wants 

 room for the effect of detached trees, the outline will 

 be heavy, if these little attentions are disregarded. 

 As for the kind of trees to be used, good taste and 

 experience must be left to make the selection."^ 



The following words of Richard Jefferies will perhaps 

 be found helpful as explaining how the character of 

 trees counts in the landscape : 



"I listened to the sweet Briar Wind; but for weeks 

 and weeks the dark black oaks stood straight out of 

 the snow as masts of ships with furled sails frozen 

 and ice-bound in the haven of the deep valley. " 



"Thick are Hawthorn leaves, many deep on the 

 spray; and beneath them there is a twisted and 

 interentangled winding in and out of boughs, such as 

 no curious ironwork of ancient artist could equal; 

 through the leaves and metal work of boughs the soft 

 west wind wafts us at his ease." 



' Thomas Whately, Observatio7is on Modern Gardening. 



