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to assist this effect ; he delights in occasional irregularity 

 of stem and outline, and he therefore suffers his trees here 

 and there to crowd each other; he admires a twisted limb 

 or a moss covered branch, and in pruning he therefore is 

 careful to leave precisely what it would be the aim of the 

 other to remove ; and his pruning, where it is at all neces- 

 sary, is directed rather towards increasing the naturally 

 striking and peculiar habit of the picturesque tree, than 

 assisting it in developing a form of unusual refinement and 

 symmetry. From these remarks we think the amateur 

 will easily divine, that planting, grouping, and culture to 

 produce the Beautiful, require a much less artistic eye 

 (though much more care and attention) than performing 

 the same operations to elicit the Picturesque. The charm 

 of a refined and polished landscape garden, as we usually 

 see it in the Beautiful grounds with all the richness and 

 beauty developed by high culture, arises from our admira- 

 tion of the highest perfection, the greatest beauty of form, 

 to which every object can be brought ; and, in trees, a 

 judicious selection, with high cultivation, will always pro- 

 duce this effect. 



But in the Picturesque landscape garden there is visible 

 a piquancy of effect, certain bold and striking growths 

 and combinations, which we feel at once, if we know them 

 to be the result of art, to be the production of a peculiar 

 species of attention not merely good, or even refined 

 ornamental gardening. In short, no one can be a pictu- 

 resque improver (if he has to begin with young plantations) 

 who is not himself something of an artist who has not 

 studied nature with an artistical eye and who is not 

 capable of imitating, eliciting, or heightening, in his plan- 

 tations or other portions of his residence, the picturesque 



