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offers, I conceive, every facility for future 

 improvement ; as by separating altogether 

 some of its projecting points, you obtain de- 

 tached groups of varied size and character, 

 and yet in connection with the larger mass : 

 added to which, the groups thus separated 

 will consist of well furnished trees, from their 

 having been exposed to the air and sun since 

 they were first planted. 



As I cannotbut think it self-evident, that the 

 future effect of the irregular must be preferable 

 to any that can be obtained from a regular 

 clump, so I conceive its present appearance 

 to be abundantly better. View the regular 

 form on which side you will, it is a dense 

 mass of unvarying shape and surface : whilst 

 the irregular is a continued variety of form 

 as you move round it ; and, from its angular 

 projections and recesses, affords that light and 

 shade which is sought in vain from the uni- 

 form curve. It is necessary that groups or 

 clumps should be of different size as well as 

 of different form, as similarity of appearance 

 marks them as works of art ; one great ob- 

 jection to the regularity of form in the oval 

 or the circle. 



The upper sketch is an exact representation 



