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ftill ftronger when the tree is fhattered by 

 fome accident ; has loft many of it's branches ; 

 and is fcathed, and ragged. A feathery branch 

 here and there, among broken ftumps, has often 

 a good effeft ; but it muft arife from the wild 

 fituation of the tree. On an embellished lawn 

 it would be improper. In all circumftances 

 however the fpruce-fir appears beft either 

 as a fingle tree, or unmixed with any of it's 

 fellows : for neither it, nor any of the 

 fpear-headed race, will ever form a beauti- 

 ful clump without the affiftance of other 

 trees. 



The filver-fir has very little to boaft in 

 point of picturefque beauty. It has all the 

 regularity of the fpruce ; but without it's 

 floating foliage. There is a fort of harfh, 

 ftifF, unbending formality in the ftem, the 

 branches, and in the whole economy of the 

 tree, which makes it difagreeable. We rarely 

 fee it, even in the happieft ftate^ affume a 

 picturefque fhape. Aflifted it may be in it's 

 form, when broken and mattered ; but it will 

 rarely get rid of it's formality. In old age 

 it ftands the beft chance of attaining beauty. 



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