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contrafting fweep, or the junction will be 

 awkward. 



All forms, that are unnatural, difpleafe. A 

 tree lopped into a may-pole, as you generally 

 fee in the hedge-rows of Surry, and fome other 

 countries, is difgufting. Clipped yews, lune 

 hedges, and pollards for the fame reafon are 

 difagreeable : and yet I have fometimes feen a 

 pollard produce a good effect, when nature has 

 been fuffered, for fome years, to bring it again 

 into form j but I never faw a good effect pro- 

 duced by a pollard, on which fome fingle 

 ftem was left to grow into a tree. The ftem 

 is of a different growth : it is difproportioned ; 

 and always unites awkwardly with the trunk. 



Not only all forms, that are unnatural, 

 difpleafe -, but even natural forms, when they 

 bear a refemblance to art, unlefs indeed thefe 

 forms are characteriftic of the fpecies. A 

 cyprefs pleafes in a conic form ; but, if we 

 fhould fee an oak, or an elm growing naturally 

 in that, or any other conftrained fhape, we 

 fhould take offence. In the cyprefs nature 

 adapts the fpray, and branches to the form of 

 the tree. In the oak and elm the fpray, and 



branches 



