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trees may be placed in four different positions ; four trees 

 may be placed in eight different positions (&) ; five trees 

 may be grouped in ten different ways, as to ground plan ; 

 SIX may be placed in twelve different ways (c), and so on." 

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[Fig. 18. Grouping of Trees.] 





In the composition of larger masses, similar rules must 

 be observed as in the smaller groups, in order to prevent 

 them from growing up in heavy, clumpish forms. The 

 outline must be flowing, here projecting out into the grass, 

 there receding back into the plantation, in order to take 

 off all appearance of stiffness and regularity. Trees of 

 medium and smaller size should be so interspersed with 

 those of larger growth, as to break up all formal sweeps in 

 the line produced by the tops of their summits, and oc- 



