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tongues breaking forward irregularly, the turf run- 

 ning into the bays. Trees may serve to frame a 

 particular view and frame a picture ; and when well 

 led up to the horizon will enhance the imaginative 

 effect of a place : a beyond in any view implies 

 somewhere to explore. 



All trees grow more luxuriantly in valleys than on 

 the hills, and on this account the tendency of tree- 

 growth is to neutralise the difference in the rise and fall 

 of the ground and to bring the tops of the trees level. 

 But the perfection of planting is to get an effect ap- 

 proximating as near as may be to the charming un- 

 dulations of the Forest of Dean and the New Forest. 

 Care will be taken, then, not to plant the fast-grow- 

 ing, or tall-growing trees in the low-ground, but on 

 the higher points, and even to add to the irregularity 

 by clothing the natural peaks with silver fir, whose 

 tall heads will increase the sense of height. The 

 limes, planes, and elms will be mostly kept to the 

 higher ground, bunches of Scotch fir will be placed 

 here and there, and oaks and beeches grouped to- 

 gether, while the lower ground will be occupied by 

 maples, crabs, thorns, alders, &c. " Fringe the edges 

 of your wood with lines of horse-chestnut," says 

 Viscount Lymington in his delightful and valuable 

 article on "Vert and Venery" "a mass in spring of 

 blossom, and in autumn of colour; and under these 

 chestnuts, and in nooks and corners, thrust in some 

 laburnum, that it may push its showers of gold out 

 to the light and over the fence." 



As to the nature of the soil, and degree of expo- 



