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Pine race. They are clump-lieadedj and unite well 

 in composition. With these, also, the Scotch Fir 

 leagues ; from little knots of which we often . see 

 beautiful contrasts arise. "When they are young 

 and luxuriant, especially if any number of them 

 above four or five are planted together, they 

 generally form a heavy, murky spot ; but, as they 

 acquire age, this heaviness goes off, the inner 

 branches decay, the outward branches hang 

 loosely and negligently, and the whole has often 

 a good effect, unless they have been planted too 

 closely. I am rather doubtful ho\v far deciduous 

 trees mix well in a clump with evergreens ; and 

 yet we sometimes see a natural good effect of 

 light and shade from the darkness of the Fir 

 contrasting, agreeably, with the sprightly green 

 of a deciduous tree just coming into leaf. In 

 this, however, I am clear, that, if they are mixed, 

 they ought not to be planted, as they often are, 

 alternately, but each kind together. 



Contrasts again arise from the mixture of trees 

 of unequal growth — from a young tree united with 

 an old one — a stunted tree with a luxuriant one- — 

 and sometimes from two or three trees, which, in 



