CHAEAOTEES OP TREES. 15 



And yet, in some circumstances, 1 have seen 

 beauty arise even from an unbalanced tree ; but 

 it must arise from some peculiar situation wliich 

 gives it a local propriety. A tree, for instance, 

 hanging from a rock, though totally unpoised, 

 may be beautiful : or it may have a good effect 

 when "we see it bending over a road, because it 

 corresponds -with its peculiar situation. We do 

 not, in these cases, admire it as a tree, but as 

 the adjunct of an effect, the beauty of which 

 does not give the eye leisure to attend to the 

 deformity of the instrument through which the 

 effect is produced. 



Without these requisites, therefore, form, light- 

 ness, and a proper balance, no tree can have that 

 species of beauty which we call picturesque. 



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