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Figure 36. 



must be taken down to let the eye occasionally glance through free and 

 open spaces, and to constitute an assemblage of masses and groups with 

 those that are left. We see hedge-row trees in many parks so left as to 

 shew the line where the hedges existed previously to their being cleared to 

 form the park-like appearance : and sometimes, especially when seen from an 

 eminence, the breadth of the former fields may be clearly traced. When 

 trees are scarce, and the dress of the landscape is a good deal dependent 

 upon hedge-row timber, this evil is often difficult to remedy, especially if the 

 lines are straight. It is, however, best effected by cutting down bushes and 

 trees, so as to leave various spaces without them, (fig. 36J, and thereby 



throw those which are left necessarily 

 into groups. Such of the hedge-row 

 trees, (or even others, as large as can be 

 transplanted), should also be placed from 

 two to a few yards from the line, alter- 

 nately on each side of it, and as much 

 as possible in association with those left 

 in the line, in preference to young trees, 

 which would be many years in producing 

 the necessary effect. 



The greatest caution is required 

 fpp_ in the assemblage of trees and bushes, 

 that irregularity of breadth may be pre- 

 served in the glades or pastures, and that 

 the dotting system may be strictly avoided. 

 I allude not only to the vapid manner of 

 dotting a lawn over with single trees and 

 bushes, and which is so frequently met 

 with, but to an error not the less to be 

 deprecated, namely, that of spotting 

 <n-oups (if I may be allowed the expression) equally all over a surface, thus 

 frittering away repose, and nowhere showing broad and varied expanses of 

 lawn, which are so eminently to be desired. I have been often obliged, 

 before leaving a place, to urge this point upon gentlemen who have done me 

 the honour to consult me ; there being such a wonderful propensity to fill up 



