ON FORM IN TREE SCENERY. 



with each other or with the natural features of the land- 

 scape. What I find fault with, and wish to see altered, 

 is the unseemly jumble of trees so often met with. No 

 guiding principles having been observed in planting, 

 things beautiful in themselves are comparatively dull 

 and uninteresting through the want of thought or taste 



in their arrangement, or even displeasing through in- 

 congruity. 



I am quite ready to admit that it is easier to condemn 

 that which exists than to lay down any precise rules by 

 which the uninitiated may attain the end which seems to 

 me so desirable. I seek variety and contrast, but it must 

 be variety and contrast with harmony. The professional 



