SECT. V. 



'E have thus endeavoured to mark the 

 principal charafteriftics of picturefque 

 beauty, in the moft common trees we have 

 in England. But to have a more accurate idea 

 of their nice peculiarities, and dijlinttions, we 

 mould examine their fmaller parts with a 

 little more precifion their ramification in 

 winter ; as well as the mafs of foliage, which 

 they exhibit in fummer. 



Their ramification, in part, we have already 

 confide red ; but it has only been that of the 

 larger boughs, which fupport the foliage \ 

 and fuch as we commonly fee under the 

 mafles of it, when in full leaf. Winter dif- 

 covers the nicer parts of the ramification 

 the little tender fpray ; on which the hang- 

 ing of the foliage, and the peculiar character 

 of the tree fo much depend. 



The 



