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or it may confift of a mixture of all thefe ; ill 

 which cafe, the Larches chiefly fhould occupy the 

 fkirts of the body of the wood, with here and 

 there an evergreen fir, (a Silver- fir above all o- 

 thers), the mixture may be continued ; increafing, 

 however, the proportion of firs, in receding in 

 wards, until they be, as it were, loft in the dark- 

 iiefs of a foreft. 



If circumftances demand that the plantation be 

 more narrow and confined than the above, it will 

 fall under the defcription of an Ornamental Screen 

 Plantation. 



SCREEN PLANTATIONS. 



Screen plantations, of the preceding defeription, 

 frequire to be formed with peculiar attention, not 

 only to the prefent, but the future* We mufl: 

 here anticipate what will be ufeful, pleafing, and 

 beautiful, for a great many years to come, and 

 difpofe of our trees accordingly. The taller grow- 

 ing kinds, as the Oak, the Elm, the Chefnut, and 

 the Afli, recede farthest inwards. The Firs fhould 

 recede from, or approach the view, according to 

 the darknefs or lightnefs of their tinge ; but the 

 fartheft removed part of the plantation, or ftripes, 

 if at fome confiderable diflance, ihould contain a 

 good proportion of tall growing firs, fuch as the 

 Silver or the Scots j with fewer Larches till nearer 



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