GENERAL PEIXCIPLES. 2u 



are unai-tist-like, as well as too uniformly distributed over the surfece; those 

 of the latter are artist-like, and group or unite both with the turns of the 

 walk, and with their reciprocal shapes. 



37. 2'rees in a j^arJc may form a whole relatively to one another, and yet 

 not relatively to the surface of the ground : for example, they may be placed 

 on the levels only, and not on the hills; in which case, the hills will not 

 group with the trees ; and, when the height of these hills approaches nearly 

 to that of the trees, the effect, both of the hills and trees, will be in a great 

 measure, counteracted. On the other hand, by planting trees on the heights 

 as well as on the plains, the views would present groups as effective as if the 

 whole park had been a plain ; and, if the hills were chiefly planted, their 

 effect would be much more striking than anything that a plain could possibly 

 produce. Even the magnitude which trees are calculated ultimately to attain, 

 relatively to the extent of the surface on which they are to be planted, should 

 be taken into consideration, no less than their magnitude relatively to that of 

 the buildings which are near them. Thus, a small park would be injured in 

 effect if planted with the highest and most bulky trees, because they would 

 not form a whole with any object in it ; and, though they might group toge- 

 ther, and form a whole among themselves, yet that whole would be utterly 

 disproportionate to every thing else in the park. On the same principle, the 

 apparent magnitude of water, relatively to the size of the park in which it is 

 placed, may be diminished or increased according to the size of the trees 

 planted near it. Perhaps one of the practices most adverse to the formation 

 of a whole in planting trees is, to plant one part with very large trees, and 

 another part, seen in the same view, and at the same distance from the eye. 



