io6 The Art of Landscape Gardening 



in the combination of trees of different age, size, and 

 character. 



The two sketches annexed exemplify this remark ; 

 the first [Fig. 13] represents a few young trees protected 



Fig. 14. Natural Scenery. 



by cradles, and though some of them appear nearer to- 

 gether than others, it arises from their being seen in per- 

 spective, fori suppose them, to be planted (as they usually 

 are) at nearly equal distances. In the same landscape I 

 have supposed the same trees grown to a considerable 

 size, but from their equi-distance the stems are all parallel 

 to each other, and not like the group in Fig. 14, where 

 being planted much nearer, the trees naturally recede 

 from each other. A few low bushes or thorns produce 

 the kind of group in the second sketch [Fig. 14], con- 

 sisting of trees and bushes of various growth. It may be 

 observed that the single tree, and every part of the first 

 sketch, is evidently artificial, and that the second one is 

 natural, and like the groups in a forest. 



Another source of variety may be produced by such 

 opaque masses of spinous plants as protect themselves 

 from cattle; thus stems of trees seen against lawn or water 



