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yew ; some of a light green, as the lime and the cornel ; 

 some of a green tinged with brown, as the red cedar of the 

 United States ; some of a green tinged with white, as the 

 silver poplar and sage tree ; and some of a green tinged with 

 yellow, as the ash-leaved maple and the Chinese arborvita?. 

 The gradations of these colors, from the most humble to the 

 most lofty, have, in certain situations, particular effects, to 

 which the improver will always give his attention. 



There are, besides, sometimes in trees, and commonly in 

 shrubs, still more minute varieties, in the turn of the branches, 

 in the form and the size of the foliage, and even the texture 

 of the leaves frequently produces many different appearances. 

 Some have a stiffness, some an agility in their motions ; on 

 many is a gloss, very useful at times to enliven a scene, 

 though for some scenes too glittering. To arrange the shrubs 

 and trees so that they may mutually set off the beauties and 

 conceal the blemishes of each other; to aim at no effects 

 which depend on nicety for their success ; to attend more to 

 the groups than to the individuals ; and to consider the whole 

 as a plantation and not as a collection of plants, are the best 

 general rules for the planting of trees in a landscape. 



The author proceeds to treat of all the varieties of group- 

 ing which may be observed in what is called a natural wood. 

 Wood, as a general term, comprehends all trees and shrubs 

 in whatever disposition ; but it is specifically applied, in a 

 more limited sense, the sense in which we shall now use it. 



Every plantation must either be a rvood, a grove, a clump, 

 or a single tree. A wood is composed of trees and under- 

 wood, covering a considerable space. A grove consists of 

 trees without underwood. A clump differs from either only 

 in extent : it may be either close or open ; when close it is 

 sometimes called a thicket ; when open, a group of trees ; but 

 both are equally clumps, whatever be the shape or situation. 

 The prevailing character of a wood is generally grandeur, 

 but the character of a grove is beauty. Fine trees are lovely 

 objects : a grove is an assemblage of them, in which every 

 individual loses much of its own peculiar elegance ; and what- 

 ever it loses is transferred to the superior beauty of the whole. 



