We rarely wifh for an amendment in her works. 

 So true indeed this is, that nothing is fo 

 dangerous as to take away a tree from a group. 

 You will infallibly deftroy the balance, which 

 can never again be reftored. 



Thus far we have confidered a group as a 

 Jingle independent objecl: as the objecl: of a 

 foreground confifting of fuch a confined num- 

 ber of trees, as the eye can fairly include at 

 once. And when trees ftrike our fancy, either 

 in the wild fcenes of nature; or in the im- 

 provements of art, they will ever be found in 

 combinations fimilar to thefe. 



When the group grows larger, it becomes 

 qualified only as a remote objefl combining 

 with vaft woods ; and forming a part of fome 

 extenfive fcene, either as a firfl, a fecond, 

 or a third diftance. 



The great ufe of the larger group is to 

 lighten the heavinefs of a continued diftant 

 wood; and connect it gently with the plain : 

 that the tranfition may not be too abrupt. 

 All we wifh to find in a group of this kind, 

 is proportion and general form. 



With 



