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forms, to fill up every little vacuity -with, shade. 

 At tlie same time, it must be owned, the twisting 

 of its branclies is a disadvantage to this tree, as 

 we have just observed it is to the Beech, when it 

 is stripped of its leaves, and reduced to a skeleton. 

 It has not the natural appearance, which the 

 spray of the Oak and that of many other trees 

 discovers in winter : though I have heard that in 

 America, where it grows naturally, it grows more 

 freely, and does not exhibit that twisting in its 

 branches. Its foliage, from the largeness of the 

 leaf and the mode of its growth, does not make 

 the most picturesque appearance. One of the 

 finest Occidental Planes I am acquainted with, 

 though I have heard of larger, stands in the 

 vicarage garden at Yicar's Hill, where its boughs, 

 feathering to the ground, form a canopy of above 

 fifty feet in diameter. 



The Glebe House at Boldre — restored by tlie present, 

 vicar — still retains, as during Gilpin's residence there, its 

 name of 'Vicar's Hill.' The Occidental Plane referred to 

 by Gilpin is still in full vigour, and now spans 85 feet. — Ed. 



The Oriental Plane is a tree nearly of the same 

 kind, only its leaf is more palmated ; nor has it 



