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where Salvator painted, the Chesnut flourished ; there he 

 studied it in all its forms, breaking and disposing it in 

 a thousand beautiful shapes as the exigencies of his com- 

 position required." His accomplished editor also, Sir T. 

 D. Lauder, panegyrizes it highly, and thinks that " it 

 is, perhaps, the noblest tree in our ' British Sylva. 1 " In 



all our park and woodland ornamental scenery, whether 

 as a single tree it is intended to stand prominently for- 

 ward in all its individual beauty and magnificence, or, 

 in combination with other denizens of the forest, to give 

 additional effect by the contrast and tufting of its rich 

 and splendid foliage and the outline of its form, the Ches- 

 nut ought to be freely introduced, and with a more liberal 

 hand than appears hitherto to have prevailed. Profit on 

 such occasions ought never to be considered ; it is the 

 eye and taste alone that are to be consulted. 



The Chesnut is propagated by the nuts, with the excep- 



