ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 69 



SECTION III. 



ON WOOD. 



T^ic beauty of Trees in Rural Embellishments. Pleasure resulting from their cultivation 

 Mentations in the Ancient Style ; their formality. In the Modern Style ; gr ouping trees 

 Arrangement and grouping in the Graceful school ; in the Picturesque sch(ol. Illnstra 

 tions in planting villa, ferme ornee, and cottage grounds. General classification of tree 

 as to forms, with leading characteristics of each class. 



" He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, 

 Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. 

 Calls in the country, catches opening glades, 

 Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades ; 

 Now breaks, or now directs the intending lines ; 

 Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs." 



POPE. 



M O N G all the materials at our disposal 

 for the embellishment of country resi- 

 .dences, none are at once so highly orna- 

 mental, so indispensable, and so easily managed, as trees, or 

 wood. We introduce them in every part of the landscape, 

 in the foreground as well as in the distance, on the tops 

 of the hills and in the depths of the valleys. They are, in- 

 deed, like the drapery which covers a somewhat ungainly 

 figure, and while it conceals its defects, communicates to it 

 new interest and expression. 



A tree, undoubtedly, is one of the most beautiful objects 

 in nature. Airy and delicate in its youth, luxuriant and 

 majestic in its prime, venerable and picturesque in its old 



