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them the form changes at every step, new combinations, 

 new lights and shades, new inlets present themselves in 

 succession. But clumps of trees, like compact bodies of 

 soldiers, resist attacks from all sides. Examine them in 

 every point of view, walk around them — no openings, no 

 vacancy, no stragglers." 



Fig. 



-Large-growing trees arranged in centre of groups. 

 (After Maynard.) 



Where trees of the same species are planted in a group, 

 or species similar in size and form, the expression wlien 

 grown is that of a clump. To avoid this, the skilled 

 planter sets the taller species at a group corner or in the 

 centre, with the smaller and handsomer trees aiid even 



