FORESTS AND GROVES. 4! 



the place be extenfive, they are moft in charac- 

 ter ; and, if contrafted with woods, copfes, and 

 thickets, produce great interefh But in fuch 

 cafes, a grove fhould never be, or at leaft appear 

 to be, diminutive. Its fituation fhould always be 

 fuch, as to exhibit the greateft poflible magni- 

 tude, when grown up, as well as in its infancy. 

 That the grove may appear to moft advantage, it 

 is necefTary that it occupy the hang of a hill, or 

 the fwell of a riling ground : thus fituated, it 

 mows a greatly enlarged canopy of foliage. When 

 placed on level ground, the grove necefTarily re- 

 quires to be more extended in length and in 

 breadth, to produce the fame good efTeds. * 



We do not wifti that our obfervations refpecl- 

 ing grove plantations, fhould be underftood as af- 

 fe&ing thofe clumps, fmall patches of planting, 

 or groups of trees that are merely intended to 

 beautify the park or the lawn. Were fuch clumps 



planted 



* In an ornamental point of view, when the subject is a 

 perfect level, there is a very good method of imitating a 

 bank, or hang, by the management of the wood ; namely, 

 by planting tall growing shrubs in the front, low growing 

 trees in the middle, and the tallest growing trees behind. 

 A grove situated on a level, although entirely consisting of 

 tall growing trees, if not too old, may in some measure be re- 

 duced to this order by judicious lopping or pruning ; at the 

 same time, perhaps, planting in front of it a certain breadth of 

 shrubbery. 



