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first. For this purpose, the trees in the park must not be uniformly scattered 

 over the surface, but planted in such a manner as to exhibit connection and 

 grouping, even in the ground plan. In_^(/. 8., the trees are too far apart, and 

 at too uniform distances from one another, to group, or fall into expressive 

 wholes ; but in fig. 9., they will group agreeably with every change of the 

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36. The expression, " a group of objects," merely implies that these objects 

 form a whole. Nearly the same remarks will apply to a lawn varied by 

 flower-beds, or by beds of low shrubs. The beds, if distributed uniformly 

 over the lawn, will never group so as to satisfy the eye of a spectator who is 

 either walking in it, or on a gravel walk round it. The defect will be ren- 

 dered obvious by comparing _/^. 10. \\\i\\ fg. 11. The shapes of the former 



