ffiGNTS CN l ^PlLi^TING : ORNAMENTAL TUBES. 



Jor ^design ^f the following pages 

 admit, we might enlarge on the many topics here 

 suggested ; but as our purpose is to treat of planting 

 in its ornamental aspects principally, we must pass 

 them over. Yet as we have seen that planting in its 

 economic aspect bears, in many points, a close relation- 

 ship to the ornamental, what we shall have to say of 

 the latter will in a great measure apply equally to the 

 former; for while a treatise on ornamental planting 

 will bring under discussion all the topics which, were 

 it considered in a commercial aspect, could possibly be 

 suggested, it will add others of a higher nature, viz., 

 such as relate to taste. 



Because a plantation is intended merely for the pro- 

 duction of timber, there is no valid reason why it 

 should not be arranged with a view to picturesque 

 effect. A wood with a hard, formal outline, and 

 numerous unsightly angles, is not better suited for 

 the purpose than one with a flowing and picturesque 

 boundary, here advancing, there retiring ; presenting 

 deep shadows and broad lights, with all the beautiful 

 intricacy which a well-arranged wood is so capable of 

 producing, and which is so highly appreciated by the 

 eye of taste. 



But sensible as we are of the wide field for improve- 

 ment, both in the arrangement and management of 

 woods of large extent, and which too often are blots 

 rather than ornaments in the landscape, it is to the 

 woods and trees, as forming immediate appendages 

 to a mansion, that we intend the remarks, contained 

 in the following pages, principally to apply. 



