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should be placed tubs of oak with iron handles,- 

 for here is legitimate use of metal, and those 

 vessels should contain thick-growing httle trees 

 or solid-looking bushes. If all the trees were 

 hemlocks, yews and spruces, so much the better, 

 as they repeat and intensify, yet harmonize, the 

 upright lines of the statue and the house sides, 

 and increase their altitude, if there are not too 

 many of them; for an upright by itself is taller 

 than in company, just as Niagara, because of its 

 breadth, loses the height which would be readily 

 apparent if we took any ten- foot span of the cata- 

 ract, and closed it in with rock. And these 

 tubbed trees should be darkly, serenely green, 

 standing with an air of some fixity, like the statue 

 and other fitments, and contrasting pleasantly 

 with the large and fluent forms of the maples, 

 magnolias, elms, lindens or gingkos that over- 

 hung the wall at the back. If these taller, 

 rounder trees grew really outside of the walls, it 

 would be pleasanter than If they grew within, 

 for the space is so small that it would be a hard- 

 ship to sacrifice It, even for a tree, especially 

 when all the picturesquencss of the latter could 

 be effected without putting the stem on the hither 

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