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Unless the distance be great, this mixture has its 

 effect in the variety it produces both in form and 

 colour. Large bodies of Fir also, and other 

 species of Pines, have often a rich appearance, in 

 a distance, among deciduous trees; but they must 

 be Scotch Firs, Pinasters, Cluster Pines, or other 

 clump-headed trees. The spiry-headed race, the 

 Spruce Fir, the Silver Fir, and the Weymouth 

 Pine, have here, too, as well as in the clump, a 

 bad effect. Single they are sometimes beautiful ; 

 or two or three of them, here and there, by way 

 of contrast, in large plantations, may be pictu- 

 resque; but I think they are never so in large 

 bodies. In general, however, the picturesque eye 

 is httle curious with regard to the kind of trees 

 which compose a distant scene, for there are few 

 kinds which do not harmonize together. It 

 matters more, in this bold style of landscape, that 

 the masses, of each different hind, should be large. 

 The opposition is then strongly marked, and the 

 contrast striking. If different trees are grouped 

 in small bodies, the effect is totally lost in 

 distance. 



The last species of jjermanent beauty which we 



