SECTION II. 



OHAEACTEBS OF TBEES. 



j'^tEEES when young, like striplings, 

 shoot into taper forms. There 

 is a lightness and an airiness in 

 them which is pleasing ; but they 

 do not spread, and receive their 

 just proportions, till they have 

 attained their full growth. 



There is as much difference, too, in 

 trees (I mean in trees of the same kind) 

 in point of beauty, as there is in human figures. 

 The limbs of some are set on awkwardly ; their 

 trunks are disproportioned, and their whole form 

 is unpleasing. The same rules which establish 

 elegance in other objects, establish it in these. 

 There must be the same harmony of parts, the 



