remains of a vigorous conftitution. Arid yet, 

 in many circumftances, even in this ftate it 

 may be an object of picturefque notice. 



Thus we fee, in the form of the ftone-pine, 

 what beauty may refult from a tree with a 

 round head, and without lateral branches; 

 which requires indeed a good example to prove. 

 When we look at an afh, or an elm, from 

 which the lateral branches have been ftripped, 

 as is the practice in fome countries, we are 

 apt to think, that no tree, with a head placed 

 on a long ftem, can be beautiful ; yet in 

 nature's hands, (which can mould fo many 

 forms of beauty,) it may eafily be effected. 

 Nature herfelf however does not always follow 

 the rules of pifturefque beauty in the produc- 

 tion of this kind of object. The cabbage- tree, 

 I fuppofe, is as ugly, as the ftone-pine is pic- 

 turefque. The beft fpecimen of the ftone- 

 pine I ever faw, grew in the botanical garden 

 at Oxford. For the fake of the ground it oc- 

 cupied (I never heard any other reafon fug- 

 gefted) it was lately cut down. 



The moft beautiful fuccedaneum of the 

 ftone-pine, which thefe climates afford, is the 



pinafter. 



