4 GILPTN S FOREST SCENERY. 



adapted to form the arrangement of comioosition 

 in landscape, nor to receive tlie effects of light 

 and shade, tliey must give place in point of 

 beauty — of picturesque beauty, at least, wliicli we 

 are here considering — to the form and foliage 

 and ramification of the tree. Thus the splendid 

 tints of the insect, however beautiful, must yield 

 to the elegance and proportion of animals, -which 

 range in a higher class. 



With' animal life I should not set the tree in 

 competition. The shape, the different- coloured 

 fur, the varied and spirited attitudes, the cha- 

 racter, and motion which strike us in the animal 

 creation, are certainly beyond still life in its most 

 pleasing appearance. I should only observe with 

 regard to trees, that Nature has been kinder to 

 them in point of variety than even to its living 

 forms. Though every animal is distinguished 

 from its fellow by some little variation of colour, 

 character, or shape, yet in all the larger parts, in 

 the body and limbs, the resemblance is generally 

 exact. In trees, it is just the reverse : the smaller 

 parts — the spray, the leaves, the blossom, and the 

 seed — are the same in all trees of the same kind, 



