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Mountainous regions very commonly justify help in dressing judiciously the 

 bold swelling hill, the towering peak, and the grassy vale. The utmost variety 

 and effect will be produced by only planting a few of the hill sides. Economy 

 would, moreover, teach us that those should be left which are the most fertile, 

 and those planted which in some degree would be otherwise barren. In such 

 planting we may advantageously commence with the principal body at the 

 base, and rise naturally up the mount with deep and broken outlines, as high 

 as it may be thought that trees will grow. In addition to a varied outline, 

 the most massive parts should have their sameness broken by the occasional 

 appearance of vacant spots. Some of the most contracted parts or channels 

 between the mountain, that afford little or no flat surface, may very properly 

 be planted, uniting the plantations ascending the mountain on each side into 

 one. The bold hills or swells, and flats, should be varied with groups and 

 masses, so as to combine with the more remote wooded mountains ; but it 

 must be remembered not to plant too much the slacks where the swells are 

 gentle, as that would lessen the contrast produced by the undulations, and 

 produce too much of a level. In the case of a space between two hills 

 (Jig. 38, a), rising above lower swells which form and front their base, the 



Figure 38. 





lower one should be kept free from trees fronting the opening a, to let the 

 eye fall upon the dark valley and woody mountain which may appear beyond, 

 thereby producing extent and forcible variety in light and shade. 



