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cue, it is most in character to dispose them all on grass-ground, in 

 which they will appear most rural and beautiful. 



Likewise elegant ornamental trees, both as single standards and 

 in detached groups or clumps, appear the most beautiful when dis- 

 posed on spacious openings of grass-ground. 



All the plantation compartments of shrubbery, wilderness, &c., 

 should be planted with some considerable variety of different sorts of 

 trees, shrubs, and flowers, artfully disposed in various arrangements ; 

 the tallest behind, the lowest forward, and the different sorts so in- 

 termixed as to display a beautiful diversity of foliage and flowers, 

 disposing the more curious kinds contiguous to the principal walks 

 and lawns. 



As trees and shrubs are of two different tribes, deciduous and 

 evergreen kinds, those of each tribe should be mostly planted in 

 separate clumps, in which they will effect the most agreeable variety ; 

 and in some places exhibit clumps composed of both sorts to cause 

 the greater diversity ; and many of the most conspicuous deciduous 

 compartments may be embellished towards the fronts with some 

 showy evergreens, thinly dispersed, which will appear ornamental 

 and lively in winter, when the deciduous plants are destitute of 

 leaves. 



In planting the several shrubbery clumps, &c., some may be 

 entirely of trees, but the greater part an assemblage of trees and 

 shrubs together; some entirely of the low shrub kind, in different 

 situations, between and in front of the larger growths; likewise 

 should intersperse most of the shrubbery and wilderness compart- 

 ments with a variety of hardy herbaceous flowery plants of different 

 growths, having also here and there clumps entirely of herbaceous 

 perennials : the distribution or arrangement of the clumps and other 

 divisions of the different kinds, both trees, shrubs, and flowers, 

 should be so diversified as to exhibit a proper contrast, and a curious 

 variation of the general scene. 



And in the disposing the various trees, shrubs, and other plants 

 in their respective compartments, observe, for the most part, to place 

 the tallest towards the middle or back part, and the lower forward 

 towards the front, according to their natural stature of growth ; ob- 

 serving also to intermix the different sorts in each clump, &c., in such 

 order as to display a diversity of different foliage and flowers as afore- 

 said, as well as to exhibit a conspicuous variety. Likewise placing 

 the various sorts at such proportionable distances and dispositions 

 according to their various growths as each may have full scope to 

 spread its head, and so as the prospect of one may be no interruption 

 or impediment to the growth and appearance of another, but all so 

 judiciously arranged as to set off each other and appear distinct, and 

 to proper advantage from the contiguous lawns, walks, and other 

 divisions. 



In planting any continued or running plantation where shady 



walks are designed, particular care is requisite in arranging a due 



share of the taller trees and shrubs nearer the walks ; and in such 



order as to produce the desired effect ; particularly in the continued 



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