ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS. [Mai/. 



It may, however, be humbly fuggefled, that 

 the Park, or the Lawn, fliould never be daubed 

 too full of groups, or of fingle plants. When 

 there are too many put in, the whole park ac- 

 quires a confined air and appearance ; and, what- 

 ever be the intrinfic worth of the plants individu- 

 ally confidered, the eye turns from the appear- 

 ance with diflike. 



Single plants, it is prefumed, never produce 

 in the mind that fociable feeling which a fmall 

 group creates. Groups, however, fhould never 

 aflume any regular figure, or appear at all artifi- 

 cial. The eye and general ufte require, that they 

 be after the manner of Nature's works, wild and 

 irregular. Groups, therefore, fhould vary in num- 

 ber, and in ftature in fhades of colour and in 

 figure, as they recede from, or approach, the Man* 

 fion-houfe. 



The flowering Evergreen fhrubs of low growth, 

 (fuch as the Laurustinus, and different fpecies of 

 Rhododendron), fhould be placed nearer the eye, 

 or perhaps on the brow of a fomewhat diflant 

 knoll, or on the brinjc of a rivulet near a walk, 

 that, in the ftroll of the evening, the wanderer 

 may be furprifed and pleafed, 



It would be in Vain to attempt the diverfity and 

 variety above hinted at, in a fmall piece of ground 

 of perhaps an acre or two. Then, all is probably 

 feen at a glance? In fuch fmall places, therefore, 



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