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place, in painting, of a rotten tree, a 

 bunch of docks, or a broken road, pass- 

 ing under a steep bank, covered with 

 briers, nettles, and ragged thorns. 



Planting a There is no part of Landscape Gar- 



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dening more difficult to reconcile to any 



principles of Landscape Painting than the 

 form of plantations to clothe a naked 

 down. If the ground could be spared, 

 perhaps the best mode would be to plant 

 the whole, and afterwards cut it into 

 shape: it might then be considered as a 

 wood interspersed with lawns; and this 

 must be far more pleasing to the eye than 

 a lawn patched with wood, or rather dotted 

 with clumps, for it is impossible to con- 

 sider them as woods, or groups of trees, 

 while so young, as to require fences. The 

 effect of light and shade is not from the 

 trees, but from the lines of posts and rails, 

 or the situation of boxes and cradles with 

 which they are surrounded ; and these 

 being works of art, they must appear arti- 

 ficial, whether the lines be straight or 

 curved. Although much has been said 

 and written about the sweeping lines of 



