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each of thefe, as it opens, will probably accord 

 harmoniouily with the tint of it's neighbour. 

 But all trees have not the accommodating 

 qualities of the oak : the early moots of 

 ever-greens, particularly of the Scotch-fir, are 

 feldom in harmony with the foliage of the 

 parent-tree. 



As fummer advances, the foreft aflumes a 

 more determined and connected form. The 

 germs and leaves are all unfolded ; the hue of 

 the foliage becomes harmonious j and the tuf- 

 tings of the trees are prepared as beds for mafles 

 of .light to reft on j which the fpray, and the 

 bloom of early fpring, unconnected and un- 

 formed, could not fully receive. 



So far we have gained by the progrefs of the 

 year. But the great objection to fummer 

 arifes from the uniformity of it's hue. The 

 face of nature is covered with one unvaried 

 mantle of green : for tho the nicer eye may 

 trace many fhades in this general colour ; yet, 

 on the whole, it is both too vivid, and too 

 uniform, for the pencil. 



The 



