SHRUBS AND TREES. I9I 



thofe ufu.illy denominated ornamental, either 

 not proper for timber trees, or of a peculiar, 

 or curious ornamental appearance in growth, 

 leaves, or flowers, &c. and of forelt trees 

 together, efpecially the more beautiful kinds, 

 or of all the forts without diftindion, in large 

 prcmifes, to caufe the greater diverfity ; and 

 which plantations may be varioufly difpofed 

 in thickets, groves, walks, clumps, avenues, 

 •groups, fingle trees, fingle rows, double and 

 treble ranges, flraight lines, curves, fwecps, 

 angles, circles, and other diverfifications 

 where there is large fcope of ground. 



In pleafure grounds, having an open lawn 

 of grafs extending on one, or both fronts, 

 &c. of the main dwelling-houle, compart* 

 ments of ornamental plantations, as above, 

 mr.y bound the fides ot the lawn ; beginning 

 at fome moderate diftance from the houfe, 

 and varying it wider and narrower at different 

 intervals, for the greater diverfity ; furnifhed 

 with tree and larger flirub kinds, more or lefs 

 backwards, according to their refpeftive 

 heights, and having in front of the trees a 

 plantation of flovvenng Ihrubs in continuation, 

 and in detached clumps, conve/.ed, and wiiti 

 the fides diverfified in fweepSj and curves to- 

 wards and from the lawn ; the different 

 clumps feparated with grafs, or gravel in- 

 tervals proceeding from, and communicating- 

 with the lawn, and other parts of the plea* 

 fure-ground ; and thus the plantation may be 

 continued out gradually to the fide boundary, 

 1 leaving 



