may be feen exemplified in every wood of 

 natural growth. 



The branches alfo are as much a fource of 

 contraft, as the ftem. To be pifturefque they 

 muft intermingle with each other without 

 heavinefs they muft hang loofely, but yet 

 with varied loofenefs on every fide and if there 

 be one fuperior apex, there may be two or 

 three others, that are fubordinate, according to 

 the fize of the clump. 



Different kinds of trees alfo, in the fame 

 clump, occafion often a beautiful contraft. 

 There are few trees, which will not harmonize 

 with trees of a different kind : tho perhaps the 

 moft fimple, and beautiful contrafts arife from 

 the various modes of growth in the fame 

 fpecies. We often fee two or tree oaks inter- 

 mingle their branches together in a very 

 pleafmg manner. When the beech is full 

 grown, it is generally, (in a luxuriant foil at 

 leaft,) fo heavy, that it rarely blends happily 

 either with it's own kind, or with any other. 

 The filver-fir too, we have obferved, is a very 



unaccommodating tree. So alfo are other 



firs ; indeed all that taper to a point. Not fo 

 the pine-race. They are clump-headed; and 

 unite well in compofition. With thefe alfo 



the 



