88 Gilpin's foeest scenebt. 



be of use, too, in tlaickening distant scenery, or in 

 screening an object at hand, for there is no species 

 of foliage, however heavy, nor any species of 

 bloom, however glaring, which may not be brought, 

 by some proper contrast, to produce a good effect. 



It is seldom that we can express disagreement with so 

 true a lover of Nature and so delightful a writer as the 

 Author of this ' Forest Scenery.' But we are impelled to 

 put in a plea for the Horse-Chestnut j for we cannot allow 

 that it is a ' disagreeable tree ■" either in summer or 

 winter. Wild Nature produces nothing unlovely, and it 

 is by her contrastSj as much as by her harmonies, that she 

 charms. Those who love her, and all, indeed, who have 

 an eye for the picturesque, will not judge her pictures by 

 their outlines alone. They will look with earnest and 

 curious eyes into their details. And those who do this 

 can surely not deny that an individual leaf of the Horse- 

 Chestnut is a study in itself and an object of singular 

 beauty. Collectively, the wealth of glorious leafage on a 

 large specimen of ^safZit.? MjDpocastanum presents a mag- 

 nificent spectacle either in the early .^ipring time, when a 

 golden hue overspreads its foliage, or in the season of its full 

 glory, when a greater depth of verdancy makes more fitting 

 contrast with the white and brilliant heads of bloom. — Ed. 



The "Weeping Willow is a very picturesque tree. 

 It is a perfect contrast to what we have just 



