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I'rom what has been said on the de* 

 feet, it is clear that the best forms for 

 single trees, (on bad soils especially), are 

 such as divide into three or four principal 

 branches, at or about the same height ; 

 having no general leader: for such will 

 divide the sap most equally among them. 



Sometimes we find young single trees 

 of quick growing sorts, such as poplars, 

 grown top-heavy* In this case, the more 



consequence of which, it happens that the trees left, 

 or such as are ordiered to be planted, appear more like 

 the trees on the confines of a Desert.^ than such as 

 ought to grace the cheerful haunts of affluence. 



It is easy to talk about producing effect ^ as men da 

 about pictures ; it would not, however, be easy to 

 produce a good one, if the colour shop were shut 

 against tlie painter. The spoiling of the soil, or the 

 introduction of improper sorts (or even sizes) of trees, 

 puts the Planter in a similar predicament ; which 

 suggests this query : — Are not Designers, who have 

 not a considerable kyiowledge of execution, as likely to 

 waste their employers' money, as to produce the ^ecis 

 tvijich they intended ? 



