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forked tongues breaking forward irregularly, the 

 turf running into the bays. Trees may serve to 

 frame a particular view and frame a picture ; and 

 when well led up to the horizon will enhance the 

 imaginative effect of a place : a beyond in any view 

 implies somewhere to explore. 



All trees grow more luxuriantly in valleys than 

 on the hills, and on this account the tendency of 

 tree-growth is to neutralise the difference in the rise 

 and fall of the ground and to bring the tops of the 

 trees level. But the perfection of planting is to get 

 an effect approximating as near as may be to the 

 charming undulations of the Forest of Dean and the 

 New Forest. Care will be taken, then, not to plant 

 the fast-growing, or tall-growing trees in the low- 

 ground, but on the higher points, and even to add to 

 the irregularity by clothing the natural peaks with 

 silver fir, whose tall heads will increase the sense of 

 height. The limes, planes, and elms will be mostly 

 kept to the higher ground, bunches of Scotch fir 

 will be placed here and there, and ,oaks and beeches 

 grouped together, while the lower ground will be 

 occupied by maples, crabs, thorns, alders, &c. 

 " Fringe the edges of your wood with lines of horse- 

 chestnut," says Viscount Lymington in his delightful 

 and valuable article on " Vert and Venery" "a mass 

 in spring of blossom, and in autumn of colour ; and 

 under these chestnuts, and in nooks and corners, 

 thrust in some laburnum, that it may push its 

 showers of gold out to the light and over the fence." 



As to the nature of the soil, and degree of expo- 



