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Hence, when plantations are necessarily so straitened, they 

 should be composed mainly of such low-growing shrubs and 

 dwarf trees, especially evergreens, as will, by being planted 

 tolerably close and furnished down to the ground, produce 

 a thicket-like character that shall conceal or disguise their 

 actual dimensions. 



In the subjoined sketches, fig. 6 shows a narrow belt of 

 trees, similar in size and character, such as is frequently seen 

 round the margins of small parks, where, if undergrowth of 

 any kind has ever been planted, it has become killed by the 

 density and shade of the larger trees. Fig. 7 will serve as a 

 hint of the way in which such a belt may be broken up and 

 its form still more diversified by the use of a few intermediate 

 bushes, such as thorns or hollies. 



