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No 7. " Small plantations of trees, surrounded 

 by a fence, are the best expedients to form groups, 

 because trees planted singly seldom grow well ; 

 neglect of thinning and removing the fence 

 has produced that ugly deformity called a 

 Clump" 



No. 8. " Water on a eminence, or on the side of 

 a hill, is among the most common errors of Mr 

 Brown's followers ; in numerous instances I have 

 been allowed to remove such pieces of water from 

 the hills to the valleys, but in many my advice has 

 not prevailed." 



No. 9. " Deception may be allowable in imi- 

 tating the works of Nature. Thus artificial rivers, 

 lakes, and rock scenery can only be great by 

 deception, and the mind acquiesces in the fraud 

 after it is detected, but in works of Art every 

 trick ought to be avoided. Sham churches, sham 

 ruins, sham bridges, and everything which ap- 

 pears what it is not, disgusts when the trick is 

 discovered." 



No. 10. "In buildings of every kind the char- 

 acter should be strictly observed. No incongruous 

 mixture can be justified. To add Grecian to 

 Gothic, or Gothic to Grecian, is equally absurd ; 

 and a sharp pointed arch to a garden gate or a dairy 

 window, however frequently it occurs, is not less 

 offensive than Grecian architecture, in which the 

 standard rules of relative proportion are neglected 

 or violated." 



The perfection of landscape-gardening consists 



