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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



beauty consists in smooth outlines, a finely rounded head, or 

 gracefully drooping branches. But it has what is perhaps 

 more valuable, as being more rare, — the expression of bold- 





[Fig. 22. The European Larth.] 



ness, and picturesqueness, peculiar to itself, and which it 

 seems to have caught from the wild and rugged chasms, 

 rocks, and precipices of its native mountains. There its irreg- 

 ular and spiry top and branches, harmonize admirably with 

 the abrupt variation of the surrounding hills, and suit well 

 the gloomy grandeur of those frowning heights. 



Like all highly expressive and characteristic trees, much 

 more care is necessary in introducing the Larch into artifi. 

 cial scenery judiciously, than round-headed trees. If planted 

 in abundance, it becomes monotonous, from the similitude of 



