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" with them. He, therefore, in the other 

 " plate, has very dexterously changed both 

 " the point of view and the scale ; and as he 

 " knew that even a third clump would have 

 " marked the straight line, he has supposed 

 " himself at the exact point from which only 

 " two of them could be introduced into the 

 " drawing ; and to this painter-like liberty 

 " he has added that of varying their forms, so 

 " as to give them some appearance of natural 

 " groups. Mr. Repton cannot be ignorant, 

 " that when trees have been long pressed on 

 " each side by others, whenever one or more 

 " of them are left separate, two of their sides 

 " must be naked and flattened ; and that 

 " although by degrees the nakedness is clothed 

 " with small boughs and with leaves, hardly 

 " any length of time will make the flatness 

 " completely disappear. This is what on such 

 " occasions ought fairly to be stated ; and, if a 

 " drawing or engraving be made, ought fairly 

 " to be represented : but it is singular, that 

 " the person who has most strongly written 

 " against the use of applying painting to land- 

 " scape gardening, should have furnished the 

 " most flagrant instance of its abuse." * 



* Essays on the Picturesque, vol. i. p. 332. 



