8 Gilpin's fokest sceneey. 



same sweeping line, the same contrast, the same 

 ease and freedom. A bough, indeed, may issue 

 from its trunk at right angles, and yet elegantly, 

 as it frequently does in the Oak; but it must 

 immediately form some contrasting sweep, or the 

 junction will be aAvkward. 



All forms, that ai'o imnatuval, displease. A 

 tree lopped into a may-pole, as you generally see 

 in the hedgerows of Surrey and some other 

 counties, is disgusting. Clipped Yews, Lime 

 hedges, and pollards, for the same reason, arc 

 disagreeable : and yet I have sometimes seen a 

 pollard produce a good effect, when Nature has 

 been suffered, for some years, to bring it again 

 into form : but I never saw a good effect pro- 

 duced by a pollard on which, some single stem 

 was left to grow into a tree. The stem is ot 

 a different growth : it is disproportioned, and 

 always imites awkwardly with the trunk. 



Our AutKor here speaks in fclie charactei' of a true lover 

 of Nature, expressing his dislike of the hideous practice 

 of ' trimming ' trees into unnatui'al shapes — a pi-actice 

 which was niiich more common in the last century tban it 

 •is at present. Even now, however, the art of topiary — 



