SECTION V. 



SPRAY AND POLIAGE. 



^fB have tlius endeavoured to mark 

 the 'principal characteristics of pic- 

 turesque beauty, in tlie most com- 

 mou trees we have in England. 

 But to have a more accurate idea 

 of their nice peculiarities and dis- 

 tinctions, we should examine their smaller 

 parts with a little more precision — their 

 ramification in winter, as well as the 

 mass of foliage which they exhibit in summer. 



Their ramification, in part, we have already 

 considered; but it has only been that of the 

 larger boughs, which support the foliage, and 

 such as we commonly see under the masses of it 

 when in full leaf. Winter discovers the nicer 



