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cipal object. Too many, therefore, within one range of view, would mar 

 the effect intended to be produced. I do not object to a few gimips of two, 

 three, or four being introduced, and, in extensive grounds, would recommend 

 Beveral larch, or spruce fir, or white cedar, being intermixed, in some instances, 

 for the sake of variety. But I mean, that a numerous repetition of the Cedar 

 of Lebanon over the whole ground, would tend much to lessen its interest, as 

 is the case at Warwick Castle, where, I think, they prevail too extensively. 



The Larch (Larix Europwa) is a tree commanding admiration, and is, I 

 am sorry to say, not duly appreciated by many persons, which may be owing 

 to a certain monotony of character which it exhibits. It is to be found rearing 

 its head in almost every modern plantation, and is generally so crowded as 

 rarely to have room to assume its true shape. But I do not hesitate to say, 

 that a fine old-grown larch, displaying its elegant, sweeping, and recurvant 

 branches, and dehcate drooping spray, and, in spring, its red-brown blossoms 

 and light-green tints of foliage, is an object truly beautiful, and its occasional 

 introduction into the kept ground is indispensable. A group of three, or 

 more, at unequal distances, has a fine effect indeed, independently of whatever 

 kind of tree may be their neighbour. A more striking effect is produced, 

 however, when one larch takes the centre of two or more spruce, or silver firs, 

 Cedrus deodara, or some other evergreen trees, or where two or three of each 

 are blended together. A larch, or, indeed, a formal fir of any kind, should 

 always be closely associated with other trees. They are too formal to be 

 isolated. It may be made more picturesque by stopping its leading shoot 

 when ten or fifteen years in growth, and by repeating this operation when the 

 tree attempts to regain its lead ; but such specimens should not be general, 

 as, by this course, the true form or character of the tree is destroyed. 



The Silver Fir (Ticea pectinata) is a fine, broad-based, pyramidal tree, 

 throwing out, from its smooth stem, regular tiers of horizontal fan-like 

 branches, furnished with light silvery- green thick-set foliage. It is of rather 

 tender habit, and ought to have a sheltered situation in front of masses of 

 round-headed trees ; or it may be mixed with such masses, with room to 

 display its character. 



The Weymouth Pine (Pinus strobus) is a highly ornamental conical tree, 

 with a beautiful smooth-barked stem, and soft, long, thread-like foliage of a 

 light bluish-green colour. Its whole appearance generally gives it pre-eminence 



