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rows, by planting many young trees; and 

 thus the whole composition becomes frit- 

 tered into small parts, neither compatible 

 with the principles of the sublime or the 

 beautiful. The masses of light and shade, 

 whether in a natural landscape or a pic- 

 ture, must be broad and unbroken, or the 

 eye will be distracted by the flutter of the 

 scene; and the mind will be rather em- 

 ployed in retracing the former lines of 

 hedge-rows, than in admiring the ample 

 extent of lawn, and continuity of wood^ 

 which alone distinguish the park'' from 

 tlie grass or dairy farm. 

 Of single Whcrc old hedge -row timber exists 



there can be little occasion for dotting 

 young trees with such profusion; wc of- 

 ten see several hundred such trees scat- 



z There is at present no word by which we express 

 that sort of territory adjacent to a country mansion, 

 which being too large for a garden, too wild for plea- 

 sure ground, and too neat for a farm, is yet denied the 

 name of a park, because it is not fed by deer. I ge- 

 nerally wave this distinction, and call the wood and 

 lawns near every house a park, whether fed by deer, by 

 sheep, or heavy cattle. 



Trees. 



