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Nor is thei r own I'orm and appearance singly 

 to be considered, for their influence extends 

 to other objects. Whatever trees are mixed 

 with them, ^^'hether pines and cypresses, or 

 the many beautiful varieties with which our 

 gardens abound, they give a value to the 

 tints of vegetation which no opposition be- 

 tween trees of different sorts can give to 

 each other ; and this is a consideration of 

 no small moment. The contrast that arises 

 from the tint of stone, either worked, or in 

 its natural state (and the same may be said 

 of many tints of broken ground) has the 

 great advantage of detaching objects from 

 each other by a marked difference of fomi, 

 tint, and character, but without the smallest 

 injury to general harmony ; whereas strong 

 contrasts in the colours of foliage, of flowers, 

 and of blossoms, destroy harmony, without 

 occasioning either the same degree, or kind 

 of distinction. 



I have already mentioned the superiority 

 of the terrace walk in its simplest state with 

 a mere parapet, over the gravel walk with 

 its pared edge of grass, as an immediate 



