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distances, sometimes in concave and projecting parts, terminations, 

 &c, will have a very agreeable effect in their long, bending, arched 

 branches, and numerous pendulous shoots, suspended over the 

 water in a loose waving manner, sometimes sweeping the surface 

 thereof; and when arrived to some considerable growth in their 

 numerous low pendent branches suspended all round, display an 

 air of peculiar solemn grandeur. 



The various compartments of ground intended for the different 

 plantations should be digged or trenched for the reception of the 

 plants, particularly for all plantations of shrubbery, and wilderness 

 quarters, flower compartments, &c; and the ground for clumps 

 should, if not thought too expensive, be raised above the common 

 level in a gentle swell; especially all detached compartments, such 

 as shrubbery clumps, and flower partitions; and most other de- 

 tached compartments of ground for any kind of ornamental plant- 

 ing in gardens. These should generally be raised in a moderate 

 rounding swell gradually from each side to the middle; or for any 

 continued side plantation, it may be raised in a gentle slope; for 

 the swelling and sloping figure always strikes the eye the most 

 agreeably, as well as shows the plants to the best advantage. 



But where intended to have groves of stately trees, or any straight 

 ranges of trees, either single or double lines, forming a walk, or 

 avenue, it is most in character to dispose them all on grass-ground, 

 in which they will appear most rural and beautiful. 



Likewise elegant ornamental trees, both as single standards and 

 in detached groups or clumps, appear the most beautiful when 

 disposed on spacious openings of grass-ground. 



All the plantation compartments of shrubbery, wilderness, &c. 

 should be planted with some considerable variety of different sorts 

 of trees, shrubs and flowers, artfully disposed in various arrange- 

 ments; the tallest behind, the lowest forward, and the different 

 sorts so intermixed as to display a beautiful diversity of foliage 

 and flowers, disposing the more curious kinds contiguous to the 

 principal walks and lawns. 



Observing, that as trees and shrubs are of two different tribes, 

 deciduous and evergreen kinds, those of each tribe should be 

 mostly planted in separate clumps, in which they will effect the 

 most agreeable variety; and in some places may exhibit clumps 

 composed of both sorts to cause the greater diversity; and many 

 of the most conspicuous deciduous compartments may be embel- 

 lished towards the fronts with some showy evergreens, thinly dis- 

 persed; which will appear ornamental and lively in winter, when 

 the deciduous plants are destitute of leaves. 



In planting the several shrubbery clumps, &c, some may be 

 entirely of trees, but the greater part an assemblage of trees ami 

 shrubs together; some entirely of the low shrub kind, in different 

 situations, between and in front of the larger growths; Likewise 

 should intersperse most of the shrubbery and wilderness compart- 

 ments with a variety of hardy herbaceous flowery plants of different 

 growths, having also here and there clumps entirely of herbaceous 

 perennials: the distribution or arrangement of the clumps MM 



