132 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



support them. The weeping willow seeks an humble 

 scene — some romantic footpath bridge, which it half 

 conceals, or some grassy pool over which it hangs its 

 streaming foliage, 



' And dips 



Its pendent boughs, as if to drink.' " * 



The manner in which a picturesque bit of landscape 

 can be supported by picturesque spiry-topped trees, and 

 its expression degraded by the injudicious employment 

 of graceful drooping trees, will be apparent to the reader 

 in the two accompanying little sketches. In the first (Fig. 

 32), the abrupt hill, the rapid 

 mountain torrent, and the distant 

 I Alpine summits, are in fine keep- 

 ing with the tall spiry larches and 

 [Fig. 32. Tre^s in lieeping.] firs, which, shooting up ou either 

 side of the old bridge, occupy the foreground. In the 

 second (Fig. 33), there is evidently something discordant 

 in the scene which strikes the spectator at first sight ; this 

 is the misplaced introduction of the large willows, which 

 belong to a scene very different 



^-:*0^ 's^-^NJ^siv?^^^' ^^ character. Imagine a removal 

 ^^Hjj ^^ ^^^^^r^. of the surrounding hills, and let 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^0 the rapid stream spread out into a 

 [Fi-. 33. Trocs out of kcrpin?.] smooth peaceful lake with gradu- 

 illy retiring shores, and the blue summits in the distance, 

 and then the willows will harmonize admirably. 



Having now described the peculiar characteristics of 

 these diflferent classes of round-headed, spiry-topped 

 oblong, and drooping trees, we should consider the proper 



• Forest Scenery, p. 133. 



