SECTION II. 



when young, like ftriplings, fhoot 

 into taper forms. There is a lightnefs* 

 and an airinefs in them, which is pleafing ; 

 but they do not fpread, and receive their juft 

 proportions, till they have attained their full 

 growth. 



' There is as much difference too in trees, (I 

 mean in trees of the fame kind,) in point of 

 beauty, as there is in human figures* The 

 limbs of fome are fet on awkwardly; their 

 trunks are difproportioned ; and their whole 

 form is unpleafing. The fame rules, which 

 eftablifh elegance in other objects, eftablim it 

 in thefe. There muft be the fame harmony 

 of parts; the fame fweeping line; the fame 

 contraft ; the fame eafe and freedom. A bough 

 indeed may iflue from its trunk at right-angles, 

 and yet elegantly, as it frequently does in the 

 oak; but it muft immediately form fome 



B 2 contrafting 



