ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 69 



SECTION III. 



ON WOOD. 



The beauty of Trees to Rural Embelliahmenta. Pleasure resulting from their cultivation. 

 Plantations in the Ancient Style ; their formality. In the Modern Style ; grouping trees. 

 Arrangement and grouping in the Graceful school ; in the Picturesque school. Illustra- 

 tions in planting villa, ferme ora^e, and cottage grounds. General classification of trees 

 as to forms, with leading characteristics of each class. 



" He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, 

 Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. 

 Calls in the country, catches opening glades. 

 Joins Trilling woods, and varies shades from shades ; 

 Now breaks, or now directs the intending lines ; 

 Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs." 



Pope. 



M NT G all the materials at our disposal 

 for the emhellishment of country resi- 

 dences, none are at once so highly orna- 

 , mental, so indispensable, and so easily managed, as trees, or 

 wood. We introduce them in every part of the landscape, 

 — in the foreground as well as in the distance, on the tops 

 of the hills and in the depths of the valleys. They are, in- 

 deed, like the drapery which covers a somewhat ungainly 

 figure, and while it conceals its defects, communicates to it 

 new interest and expression. 



A tree, undoubtedly, is one of the most beautiful objects 

 in nature. Airy and delicate in its youth, luxuriant and 

 majestic in its prime, venerable and picturesque in its old 



