ing boughs, and dying branches, (hall you fee 

 every where !"* 



Now all thefe maladies, which our diflrefled 

 naturalift bemoans with fo much feeling, 

 are often capital fources of picturefque beauty, 

 both in the wild fcenes of nature, and in arti- 

 ficial landfcape. 



What is more beautiful, for inftance, on a 

 rugged foreground, than an old tree with a 

 hollow trunk ? or with a dead arm, a drooping 

 bough, or a dying branch ? all which phrafes, 

 I apprehend are nearly fynonymous. 



From the withered top alfo great ufe, and 

 beauty may refult in the compofition of land- 

 fcape j when we wifh to break the regularity 

 of fome continued line ; which we would not 

 intirely hide. 



By the curtailed trunk I fuppofe Mr. Lawfon 

 means a tree, whofe principal ftem has been 

 mattered by winds, or fome other accident j 

 while the lower part of it is left in vigour. 

 This is alfo a beautiful circumftance ; and 

 it's application equally ufeful in landfcape. 

 The withered top juft breaks the lines of an 



* See Lawfon's Orchard. 



eminence : 



