276 Gilpin's fobest soeneey. 



you wish to compose your grove in the gloomy 

 style, the Pine race will best serve your purpose. 



The open grove seldom makes a picturesque 

 appearance. In distant scenery, indeed, it may 

 have the effect of other woods ; for the trees, of 

 which it is formed, need not be separated from 

 each other, as they often are in the copse ; but 

 being well massed together, may receive beautiful 

 effects of light. When we enter its recesses, it is 

 not so well calculated to please. There, it wants 

 variety ; and that, not only from the smoothness 

 of the surface, but from the uniformity of the 

 furniture — at least if it be an artificial scene ; in 

 which the trees, having been planted in a nursery, 

 grow all alike, with upright stems. And yet a 

 walk, upon a velvet turf, winding at pleasure 

 among these natural columns, whose twisting 

 branches at least admit some variety, with a 

 spreading canopy of foliage over the head, is 

 pleasing, and, in hot weather, refreshing. Some- 

 times we find the open grove of natural growth. 

 It is then more various, and irregular, and be- 

 comes, of course, a more pleasing scene. And yet, 

 when woods of this kind continue, as they some- 



