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" air, like a country wench's gown tucked 

 " through her pocket holes, in the days when 

 " such things as pockets were extant in i^erum 

 " naturd. In other cases of enormity, the 

 " unhappy plantations have been made to 

 " assume the form of pincushions, of hatchets, 

 " of penny tarts, and of breeches displayed at 

 " an old clothesman's door. These abortions 

 " have been the consequence of a resolution 

 " to occupy with trees only those parts of 

 '- the hill where nothing else will grow ; and 

 " which, therefore, is carved out for their 

 " accommodation with ' up and down and 

 " « snip and slash,' whatever unnatural and 

 " fantastic forms may be thereby assigned to 

 " their boundaries. 



" In all such cases, the insulated trees, de- 

 " prived of the shelter they experience when 

 « planted in masses, have grown thin and 

 " hungrily — affording the unhappy planter 

 " neither pleasure to his eye, credit to his 

 " judgment, nor profit to his purse. A more 

 " liberal projector would have adopted a very 

 " different plan. He would have considered, 

 " that although trees, the noblest production 

 " of the vegetable realm, are of a nature 

 " extremely hardy, and can grow where not 



