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Landscape Gardening 



fully preserved against cattle, whose browsing line would 

 soon efface this most beautiful disposition in some of our 

 line lawn trees. Clean, smooth stems, fresh and tender 

 bark, and a softly rounded pyramidal or drooping head, 

 are the characteristics of a Beautiful tree. We need not 

 add that gently sloping ground, or surfaces rolling in easy 

 undulations, should accompany such plantations. 



FIG. 10. TREES GROUPED TO PRODUCE THE PICTURESQUE 



Planting and Grouping to produce the Picturesque. All 

 trees are admissible in a picturesque place, but a predomi- 

 nance must be used by the planter of what are truly called 

 picturesque trees, of which the larch and fir tribe and 

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

 turesque plantations everything depends on intricacy 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. 10 may, 

 as compared with Fig. 9, 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 



