26(3 ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS. 



fide {hall the eye be able to penetrate to the other, 

 even were the trees arrived at their full ftature, 

 and properly trained. This circumftance fhows 

 alfo the propriety of removing the fituation of the 

 grove to a confiderable diftance from the fite of 

 the manfion-houfe : It would be no mark of an 

 improved tafte to narrow the profpect, by placing 

 a grove in an improper direction. For further 

 information on this article, fee the article Groves 

 for laft month. 



A Grove, then, may be conftituted of a mixture 

 of trees, like ordinary mixed plantations, or, more 

 properly, in the form of mafles ; in which refpeft, 

 indeed, they may be confidered as ordinary plan- 

 tations. Indeed, they differ from them hardly 

 in any thing, excepting that the principals are to 

 be placed rather more clofely together. The 

 principals of a deciduous grove mould be placed 

 at the diftance of fix feet ; and the interfaces filled 

 up with nurfes of larch or firs, till the trees in the 

 whole grove be only from three to four feet apart. 



Groves may be formed of Larches alone. A 

 grove of larches of good extent, properly trained, 

 produces a grand and pleafing effect. Larches 

 planted for a grove mould ftand, in the firft in 

 fiance, at the diftance of three feet and a half a- 

 part. If the land be tolerably good, they may be 

 planted in the T method like ordinary planting. 

 After pitting, fallow, or trenching, they will 



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