TREES BEST SUITED TO FORM THE AERIAL LINE. 



The round-headed and ovated trees are unquestionably best adapted to form 

 the sky or aerial line, or to crown the summit of a hill. Their convex outline 

 particularly harinonizes with the concave or arched canopy of the heavens. 

 I will name a few which are generally under our notice in English scenery. 



The Mountain or Wych Elm is the most elegant, when aged, and is one 

 of the best for the purpose. 



The English Elm is particularly striking when viewed before the horizon. 

 Its dark upright trunk, stiff dark arms and clustered branches, and its thick- 

 set spray, contrasted with the light of the sky seen through its foliage, 

 produces a more pleasing effect than perhaps any other tree. 



The Beech, with its noble extended arms, and light feathery twigs, is 

 well adapted, and truly elegant in its outline. 



The Birch is very elegant when seen in this position, especially if it be 

 of the weeping kind, and particularly if the top only catches the horizon, and 

 the greatest portion of the trunk is backed by a hill. The trunk, being 

 white, however, and seldom of noble stature, its importance is in some degree 

 lessened, and consequently its introduction ought not to be so general. 



The Oak is very appropriate. Its picturesque character is then clearly 

 presented. 



The Sycamore, when stripped of its foliage, presents a stiff, blunt 

 appearance, except when the tree is of a good age, and its branches are 

 formed into divisions or tiers, and clustered twigs : it has then a fine effect. 

 But such a tree in full fohage is truly grand. 



An aged Ash is suitable, from its lightness and elegance. 



The Lime is a well-formed tree for the purpose, but scarcely varied 

 enough in the distribution of its branches to produce striking effects of light 

 and shade ; still it is not objectionable. 



