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upright character will spring out of the masses of round- 

 headed vegetation and give increased variety to the outhne 

 without weakening the general smoothness of the effect, while 



Fig. 49. A Mixed Group. 



the edges of the masses will be delightfully softened ofif and 

 feathered down, so as to unite by an easy and graceful line 

 with the sweep of the ground in the glades between them. 



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Fig. 50. A Good Picturesque Grouping. 



It is something of this sort, in a humbler way, that is 

 wanted in garden or home plantations. The sky line recjuires 

 to be broken, but not in a hard or abrupt manner. Trees 



