ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 61 



twelve different ways (c), and so on. (Eiicyclopcedia of 

 Gard.) 





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[Fig. 2. Grouping of Ti-»es.] 



In the composition of larger masses, similar rules must be 

 observed as in the smaller groups, in order to prevent them 

 from growing up in heavy clumpish forms. The outline must 

 be flowing, here projecting out into the grass, there receding 

 back into the plantation, in order to take off all appearance 

 of stiffness and regularity. Trees of medium and smaller size 

 should be so interspersed with those of larger growth, as to 

 break up all formal sweeps in the line produced by the tops 

 of their summits, and occasionally low trees should be 

 planted on the outer edge of the mass, to connect it with the 

 humble verdure of the surroundinsf sward. 



