BOOK II. 



SECTION I. 



ROM confidering trees as individuals, we 

 proceed next to conflder them under their 

 various combinations ; among which, clumps 

 are the fimplefl. 



What number of trees make a clump, no 

 rules of art prefcribe. The term has rather 

 a relative meaning. In fcenes, brought near 

 the eye, we call three or four trees a clump. 

 But in diftant and extenfive fcenery, we 

 fcruple not to ufe the term for any finaller 

 detached part of a wood, tho it it may confifl 



of fome hundreds. But tho the term 



admits not of exaft definition, I fhall en- 



N 2 deavour 



