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Irast the thickets themselves, each a model 

 of intricacy and variety, with the clump of 

 large trees only, as perfect a model of 

 baldness and monotony. By planting a 

 mixture of the different growths, sometimes 

 in large extended plantations, to be se- 

 parated afterwards into groups and thickets 

 with various inlets and openings; some- 

 times in smaller masses, arranging them 

 so as to cross, and as it were to lap over 

 each other, with passages of various 

 breadths between them, the variety of fo- 

 rest lawns might be given to those near a 

 house, yet the neatness of a dressed lawn 

 be preserved; and water so backed, would 

 not need a continued fringe for the pur- 

 pose of concealing what was behind. 

 Such future groups and thickets, as they 

 must be prepared by being dug and 

 fenced, will at first look heavy and formal; 

 but the circumstance of the different 

 growths is a sure preservative against the 

 incurable sameness and insulated appear- 

 ance of clumps, as they are usually plant- 

 ed and left. 



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