88 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



ways of approach from one point to another, are, by an 

 elegant arrangement of trees on their margins, or adjacent 

 to tliem, made the most interesting and pleasing portions of 

 the residence. 



In Geometric gardening, trees disposed in formal lines, 

 exhibit as strongly art or design in the contriver, as regU' 

 lar architectural edifices ; while, in a more elevated and 

 enlightened taste, we are able to dispose them in our plea- 

 sure-grounds and parks, around our houses, in all the vari- 

 ety of groups, masses, thicket, and single trees, in such a 

 manner as to rival the most beautiful scenery of general 

 nature ; producing a portion of landscape which unites with 

 all the comforts and conveniences of rural habitation, the 

 superior charm of refined arrangement, and natural beauty 

 of expression. 



If it were necessary to present any other inducement 

 to the country gentleman to form plantations of trees, 

 than the great beauty and value which they add to his 

 estate, we might find it in the pleasure which all derive 

 from their cultivation. Unlike the pleasure arising from 

 the gratification of our taste in architecture, or any other 

 of the arts whose productions are offered to us perfect 

 and complete, the satisfaction arising from planting and 

 rearing trees is never weakened. " We look," says a 

 writer, " upon our trees as our oflfspring ; and nothing 

 of inanimate nature can be more gratifying than to see 

 them grow and prosper under our care and attention, — 

 nothing more interesting than to examine their progress, 

 and mark their several peculiarities. In their progress 

 from plants to trees, they every year unfold new and 

 characteristic marks of their ultimate beauty, which not 

 only compensate for past cares and troubles, but like the 



