ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS, 



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Contrasts, again, are often admissible in woody scenery ; 

 and we would not wish to lose many of our most superb 

 trees, because they could not be introduced in particular 

 portions of landscape. Contrasts in trees may be so 

 violent as to be displeasing ; as in the example of the 

 groups of the three trees, the willow, poplar, and oak : 

 or they n;iay be such as to produce spirited and pleasing 

 effects. This must be effected by planting the different 

 divisions of trees, first, in small leading groups, and then 

 by effecting a union between the groups of different 

 character, by intermingling those of the nearest similarity 

 into and near the groups : in this way, by easy transitions 

 from the drooping to the round-headed, and from these to 

 the tapering trees, the whole of the foliage and forms 

 harmonize well. 



|Fig. 34. Example in grouping.] 



" Trees," observes Mr. Whately, in his elegant treatise 

 on this subject, " which differ in but one of these 

 circumstances, of shape, green, or growth, though they 

 agree in every other, are sufficiently distinguished for the 



Bays, in speaking of the dark Scotch fir, " with regard to color in general, I 

 Aink I speak the language of painting, when I assert that the picturesque eye 

 makes little distinction in this matter. It has no attachment to one color in 

 preference to another, but considers the beauty of all coloring as resulting, not 

 from the colors themselves, but almost entirely from their harmony with other 

 tolors in their neighborhood. So that as the Scotch fir tree is combined ar 

 stationed, it forms a beautiful umbrage or a murky spot." 



