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first place, trees, which, as we shall hereafter point out, are 

 expressive of that kind of beauty. They must not only be 

 ' arranged as we have here suggested, but they should be 

 kept growing in the most luxuriant and healthy manner. 

 They should mostly exhibit clean smooth stems, fresh and 

 tender barks, and handsome well balanced heads. To height- 

 en their elegance, they might, in frequented parts of the scene, 

 occasionally be entwined with the most showy and graceful 

 climbing plants, or intermixed with tall growing, flowering 

 shrubs ; and to correspond with them, the ground should slope 

 gently, or roll away in easy undulations, and the turf should 

 be close fed, or well rnown. 



If, on the contrary, the planter desire to improve or plant 

 grounds already somewhat picturesque, or to which he aims 

 to impart that character, he must choose such trees as have 

 in themselves that expression, and intermix them in much 

 larger proportion in his plantations. There should be more 

 of the wildness of the finest and most forcible portions of nat- 

 ural woods or forests, in the disposition of the trees ; some- 

 times planting them closely,, even two or three in the same 

 hole, at others more loose and scattered. These will grow 

 up into wilder and more striking forms, the barks will be 

 deeply furrowed and rough, the limbs twisted and irregular, 

 and the forms and outlines distinctly varied. They should 

 often be intermixed with smaller undergrowth of similar char- 

 acter, as the hazel, hawthorn, etc., and formed into such pic- 

 turesque and striking groups, as painters love to study and 

 introduce into their pictures. Luxuriant vines, or such as 

 are themselves picturesque in their festoons and hangings, 

 should be allowed to clamber over occasional trees in a neg- 

 ligent manner; and the surface and grass, in parts of the scene 

 not immediately in the neighbourhood of the mansion, may 



