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J\\:les on Belts cf Trees. 



ceal the boundary, out-buildings, or other unsightly objects at 

 b. To effect this, the planter disposes two or three regular 

 parallel lines of trees and shrubs. Now it will be evident, 

 we think, on a little reflection, that this disposition is in bad 

 taste; first, because there is a want of harmony or congruity 

 between the graceful curved line of the road and the rectan- 

 gular one formed by the trees; and secondly, on account of 

 the sameness, or want of variety in the outline of such a belt, 

 as seen from the road. 



In the second sketch (fg. 7,) is presented the same road, 

 with the belt, d, correctly planted. This arrangement har- 



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monizes with the road, as the natural and graceful groups 

 seem to advance or recede in correspondence with its direc- 

 tion, so as to give a meaning for its curves; it forms a thicker 

 and more impenetrable screen, as the trees being irregularly 

 arranged, have more opportunity to expand their heads or 

 branches in various directions; and to the spectator riding or 

 walking along the road, it affords a thousand times more vari- 

 ety than the common regular belt. If we examine the bell, 

 c, (in the first sketch,) from the road, we shall find its char- 

 acteristic quality to be a sameness not much unlike that of an 

 enormous hedge: the trunks of the trees range in straight 



