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a picturesque plantation or scene should stand isolated — 

 each should be considered as merely forming^ part of a group 

 or mass. 



When planted, the trees and shrubs should be scattered 

 over the ground in the most irregular manner, both in their 

 disposition with reference to their immediate effect as plants, 

 and with reference to their future effect as trees and shrubs. 

 In some places trees should prevail, in others shrubs. In 

 some parts the plantation should be thick, in others thin — 

 two or three trees or a tree and shrub ought often to be 

 planted together, and this more especially on lawns over 

 which trees and shrubs are to be scattered in the picturesque 

 manner. 



Where, on the contrary, they are to be scattered in the 

 gardenesque manner, every tree and shrub should stand 

 singly, as in the geometrical manner they should stand in 

 regular lines or in some geometrical figure. In the garden- 

 esque there may be single trees and single shrubs ; but there 

 can be no such thing as a single tree in the picturesque. 

 Every tree in the picturesque style of laying out grounds 

 must be grouped with something else, if it should be merely 

 a shrub, a twiningplant, a tuft of grass, or other plants at its root. 

 In the gardenesque, the beauty of the isolated tree consists in 

 the manner in which it is grown ; in the picturesque the 

 beauty of a tree or shrub, as of every other object in the land- 

 scape, consists in its fitness to group with other objects. Now 

 the fitness of one object to group with another evidently does 

 not consist in the perfection of the form of that object, but 

 rather in that imperfection which requires another object to 

 render it complete.' 



In this description of the gardenesque mode of imitating 

 nature, we perceive that the exhibition of a highly developed 



