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would be felt iin the course of a drive, if 

 the trees of different kinds were collected 

 in small groups, or masses by themselves, 

 instead of being- blended indiscriminately, 



I do not mean to make separate groves Variety, 

 or woods of different trees, although that produced. 

 has its beauty, but in the course of the 

 drive to let oaks prevail in some places, 

 beech in others, birch in a third; and in 

 some parts to encourage such masses of 

 thorns, hazle, and maple, holleys, or other 

 brush-wood of low growth, as might best 

 imitate the thickets of a forest/ 



'' It is difficult to lay down rules for any system of 

 planting, which may ultimately be useful to this purpose 5 

 time, neglect, and accident, will often produce unex- 

 pected beauties. The gardener or nurseryman makes 

 his holes at equal distance, and generally in straight 

 rows; he tlien fills the holes with plants, and care- 

 fully avoids putting two of the same sort near each 

 other; nor is it very easy to make him ever put two or 

 more trees into the same hole, or within a yard of 

 each other : he considers them as cabbages or turnips, 

 which will rob each other's growth, unless placed at 

 equal distances; although in forests we most admire 

 those double trees or thick clusters, whose stems seem 

 to rise from the same root, entangled with the roots of 

 (horns and bushes in every direction. 



