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level, in a gentle swell ; especially all detached compartments, such a* 

 shrubery clu m ps, and flower partitions ; and most other detached com- 

 partments of ground, for any kind of ornamental planting in gardens. 

 These should generally be raised in a moderate rounding swell, gra- 

 dually from each side to the middle ; or for any continued side plan- 

 tation, it may be raised in a gentle slope ; for the swelling and sloping 

 figure always strikes the eye the most agreeably, as well as shows 

 the plants to the best advantage. 



But where intended to have groves of stately trees, or any straight 

 ranges of trees, either single, or double lines, forming a walk or 

 avenue, 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 varied arrange- 

 ments ; the tallest behind, the lowest forward, and the different sorts 

 so intermixed, as to display a beautiful diversity of foliage and 

 flowers, disposing the more curious kinds contiguous to the princi- 

 pal walks and lawns. 



For a list of the different sorts of trees, shrubs, &c. proper for 

 embellishing the several divisions, see the catalogues of DECIDUOUS 

 TREES, and EVER-GREENS, annexed to this work. 



Observing, that as the trees and shrubs are of two different 

 tribes, deciduous, and ever-green 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 may exhibit clumps 

 composed of both sorts, to cause the greater diversity ; and many 

 of the most conspicuous deciduous compartments maybe embellished 

 towards the fronts, with some showy ever-greens, thinly dispersed ; 

 which will appear ornamental and lively in winter, when the deci- 

 duous plants are destitute of leaves. 



In planting the several shrubbery clumps, Sec. 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 differ- 

 ent 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 cu- 

 rious variation of the general scene. 



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

 in their respecthe 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; observing also to intermix the different sorts in each 

 clump, &c. in such order, as to display a diversity of different 

 foliage and flowers, as aforesaid, as well as exhibit a conspicuous 



