Feb.~] SCREEN PLANTATIONS. 259 



In planting fuch, there ought to be a good num- 

 ber of underwood plants introduced at firft, which 

 would fecure the good effects of fhelter, and take 

 off the naked appearance which fuch ftripes other- 

 wife affume* 



Screen plantations, removed to a confiderable 

 diftance from the principal view, and formed of 

 firs, produce a pleafing effect. Such, however, if 

 the breadth will admit, affume the character of 

 Groves, and mould be treated as fuch. 



In unpropitious foils, and bleak filiations, where 

 it is neverthelefs necelfary to raife wood for beau- 

 tifying the adjoining grounds, the nature and qua- 

 lity of the foil muft be ftudied, and only fuch 

 kinds introduced as will, with certainty, grow 

 well. If experimental trees are at all ufed, let it 

 only be where the nurfes would have flood, and 

 that, too, with a fparing hand. 



PLANTING OR FORMING GROVES. 



It has already been obferved, that a grove is a 

 plantation of trees, whatever be their kind or 

 kinds, which are intended to be trained up with 

 ftraight tall trunks. This circumftance will partly 

 determine its extent. If the eye can penetrate 

 through a plantation, it produces a feeling of na- 

 kednefs. A grove, then, mould be of fuch art 

 extent, or fo particularly fuuated, that, from no 

 R % fide 



