PLANTING. 89 



CHAP. IV. 



PLANTING. ERRORS COMMITTED. — IRREGULAR FORM IN 



OPPOSITION TO OVALS AND CIRCLES. CONTROVERSY 



BETWEEN SIR UVEDALE PRICE AND MR. REPTON. 



From the dress ground we pass to the scenery 

 beyond it. As the beauty and character of 

 this part of the picture will depend (as far as 

 art can assist it) chiefly upon planting, some 

 general hints may be given on that head, for 

 conducting it so as to show and improve such 

 varieties of ground as the place may possess, 

 though it will not be possible to give a plan 

 that shall be applicable to all cases. 



One rule, indeed, may be universally laid 

 down — never to plant a belt. 



In planting, the first care should be to con- 

 nect the different plantations under one gene- 

 ral intention ; not to scatter them in detached 

 spots, as it were at random, without any pur- 

 pose of uniting them in composition. 



How frequently do we see undulations of 

 ground, which might have been infinitely 

 varied by judicious planting, utterly deformed 



