bottom, and ftemmy, muft necefiarily in a 

 courfe of years, even in point of pifturefque 

 beauty, be given to the axe fhall the whole 

 be cut down together ? Or fhall a border be 

 left, as is fometimes done, on each fide of the 

 walk? 



This is a difficult queftion ; but I think all 

 fhould go together. Unlefs the border you 

 leave, be very broad, it will have no effecl:, 

 even at prefent. You will fee through it : it 

 will appear meagre: and will certainly never 

 unite happily with the neighbouring parts, 

 when they begin to grow. At leaft let it not 

 ftand longer than one year. The reft of the 

 copfe will then be growing beautiful j and the 

 border may be difpenfed with, till it is 

 replaced. But the bell way certainly is, if 

 you have courage, to cut the whole down, 

 together. In a little time, as we obferved 

 above, it will recover it's beauty. 



Nearly related to the copfe, tho more the 

 genuine offspring of nature, is the thicket. 

 The thicket is an intermixture of underwood, 

 chiefly of the thorny kind ; wholly unprotected ; 

 and yet fo clofe as to exclude all entrance. 

 Of this fpecies however we need fay the 

 lefs, as it is rarely found of any extenfion, 



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