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those deciduous trees, whose colour and 

 character assimilate best with them. But we 

 are not admirers of that regularity and uni- 

 formity so often offensive to the eye in large 

 plantations, where there is no deviation from 

 the fir and the larch, unless where death has 

 made a gap, when you are treated with a larch 

 and a fir through hill and dale to the end of 

 the plantation. 



The cypress seems admirably adapted to or- 

 nament those lawns which surround villas or 

 lodges built in the Grecian style, and per- 

 haps we have no tree that accords so well with 

 stone or stuccoed edifices as the cypress; and 

 even the temples of marble lose half their 

 effect if surrounded by other buildings instead 

 of being relieved by the foliage of trees. At 

 the present time, the burial hill of Pere-la- 

 chaise, near Paris, forms a most interesting 

 picture, as the numerous and various formed 

 monuments rise above the young arbores 

 vitae and cypresses, like a city of marble 

 emerging from a forest, and from which, a 

 friend observes, we may form a faint picture of 

 the beautiful appearance of Constantinople 

 from the Bosphorus; the hills on which that 

 city stands being intermixed with white build- 

 ings and green foliage, which forms a spectacle 



not equalled in any other part of Europe. 



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