ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 



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and some species of oak, may be taken as examples. In 

 Picluresque plantations everything depends on intricact, 



[Fig. 22. Grouping to produce the Picturesque.] 



and irregularity, and grouping, therefore, must often be 

 done in the most irregular manner — rarely, if ever, with 

 single specimens, as every object should seem to connect 

 itself with something else ; but most frequently there should 

 be irregular groups, occasionally running into thickets, and 

 always more or less touching each other ; trusting to after 

 time for any thinning, should it be necessary. Fig. 22 

 may, as compared with Fig. 21, give an idea of picturesque 

 grouping. 



There should be more of the wildness of the finest and 

 most forcible portions of natural woods or forests, in the 

 disposition of the trees ; sometimes planting them closely, 

 even two or three in the same hole, at others more loose 

 and scattered. These will grow up into wilder and more 

 striking forms, the barks will be deeply furrowed and rougli, 

 the limbs twisted and irregular, and the forms and outlines 

 distinctly varied. They should often be intermixed with 

 smaller undergrowth of a similar character, as the hazel, 

 nawthorn, etc., and formed into such picturesque and strik 



