The Wey mouth-pine has very little pictu- 

 refque beauty to recommend it. It is admired 

 for it's polimed bark. The painter's eye pays 

 little attention to fo trivial a circumftance, even 

 when the tree is confidered as a fmgle object. 

 Nay it's polimed bark rather depreciates it's 

 value: for the picturefque eye dwells with 

 more pleafure on rough furfaces, than on 

 fmooth ; it fees more richnefs in them, and 

 more variety. But we objecl: chiefly to the 

 Weymouth-pine on account of the regularity of 

 it's ftem; and the meagrenefs of it's foliage. 

 It's ftem rifes with perpendicular exaftnefs ; it 

 rarely varies: and it's branches ifTue with 

 equal formality from it's fides. It's foliage too 

 is thin, and wants both richnefs and effect. 

 If I were fpeaking indeed of this tree in com- 

 pofition, I might add, that it may often appear 

 to great advantage in a plantation. Contrafr, 

 we know, produces beauty even from deformity 

 itfelf. Oppofed therefore to the wildnefs of 

 other trees, the regularity of the Weymouth- 

 pine may have it's beauty. It's formality may 

 be concealed. A few of it's branches hang- 

 ing from a mafs of heavier foliage, may 

 appear light, and feathery ; while it's fpiry 



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