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the acncia; and in some of these last dark green. The dark green must be 

 they incline obliquely, as in many of the the largest, the light green the next in 

 firs; in some they hang directly down, extent, and the yellow green the least 



in the weeping willow, 

 "These are the most obvious great 

 distinctions in the shapes of trees and 



of all. 



"From those combinations, the agree- 

 lents between particular tints may be 



shrubs. The difference between shades known. A light green may be next 

 of green cannot be so considerable, but either to a yellow or a brown green, and 



a brown to a dark green; all in consider- 

 able quantities, and a little rim of dark 

 green may border on a red or a light 

 green. 



" Further observations will show, that 

 the yellow and the white greens connect 



these also will be found well deserving 

 of attention. 



"Some are of a dark green, as the 

 horse-chestnut and the yew. Some of a 

 light green, as the lime and the laurel. 

 Some of a green tinged with brown, as 



the Virginian cedar. Some of a green easily; but that large quantities of the 

 tinged with white, as the arbele and the light, the yellow, or the white greens, 

 sage tree. And some of a green tinged do not mix well with a large quantity 

 with yellow, as the ashen-leaved maple ' also of the dark green; and that to form 

 and the Chinese arbor vita;. The varie- ! a pleasing mass, either the dark green 

 gated plants also are generally entitled must be reduced to a mere edging, or a 

 to be classed with the white or the ycl- brown or an intermediate green must be 

 low, by the strong tincture of the one interposed ; that the red, the brown, and 

 or the' other of those colours on their ^ the intermediate greens agree among 

 leaves. ' themselves, and that either of them may 



" The fall of the leaf is the time to ' be joined to any other tint ; but that the 

 learn the species, the order, and the red green will bear a larger quantity of 

 proportion of tints, which blended, will the light than of the dark green near it; 

 form beautiful masses; and, on the other nor does it seem so proper a mixture 

 hand, to distinguish those which are in- I w^ith the white green as with the rest. 



compatible near together. 



In massing these tints, an attention must 



" The peculiar beauty of the tints of be constantly kept up to their forms, 

 red, cannot then escape observation, that they do not lie in large stripes one 

 and the want of them throughout the beyond another; but that either they be 

 summer months must be regretted ; but quite intermingled, or, which is gene- 

 thc want, though it cannot perfectly, i rally more pleasing, that considerable 

 may partially be supplied, for plants ' pieces of different tints, each a beautiful 

 have a permanent and an accidentaP figure, be in different proportions placed 

 colour. The permanent is always some near together. 



shade of green, but any other may be J " Exactness in the shapes must not be 

 the accidental colour; and there is none attempted, for it cannot be preserved ; 

 which so many circumstances concur to j but if the great outlines be well drawn, 

 produce as a red. It is assumed in sue- little variations afterwards occasioned 

 cession by the bud, the blossom, the by the growth of the plants, will not 

 berry, the bark, and the leaf. Some- I spoil them. Another effect attainable 

 times it profusely overspreads, at other by the aid of the different tints, is found- 

 times it dimly tinges the plant, and a ed on the first principles of perspective; 

 reddish-green is generally the hue of objects grow faint as they retire from 

 those plants on which it lasts long or the eye; a detached clump or a single 



frequently returns. 



tree of the lighter green will, therefore. 



"Admitting this, at least for many seem farther off than one equidistant of 



months in the year, among the charac- a darker hue, and a regular gradation 



teristic distinctions, a large piece of red- from one tint to another will alter the 



green, with a narrow edging of dark apparent length of a continued planta- 



green, along the further side of it, and I tion, according as the dark or the light 



beyond that, a piece of light green, still greens begin the graduation, 



larger than the first, will be found to " Single trees scattered about a lawn, 



compose a beautiful mass. Another, cast it into an agreeable shape, and to 



not less beautiful, is a yellow green, produce that shape, each must be placed 



nearest to the eye, beyond that a light with an attention to the rest ; they may 



green, then a brown green, and lastly a stand in particular directions, and col- 



