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have an horizontal direction, they hold improper for 

 thickets; becaufe their branches indent into each other; 

 and likewife cut difagreeably upon the plants which back 

 them. They never mix thefe horizontal branched trees with 

 the cyprefs, the oriental arbor vitae, or other upright ones; 

 nor with the larix, the weeping willow, the birch, the 

 laburnum, or others of a pendant nature-, faying, that the 

 interfe&ion of their branches forms a very unpiclurefque 

 kind of net-work: neither do they employ together the 

 catalpha and the acacia, the yew and the willow, the 

 plane and the fliumach, nor any of fuch heterogeneous 

 forts .; but on the contrary, they affemble in their large 

 woods, the oak, the elm, the beech, the tulip, the fyca- 

 more, maple and plane, the Indian chefnut and weftern 

 walnut, the arbeal, the lime, and all whofe luxuriant 

 foliages hide the direction of their branches; and growing 

 in globular maffes, affemble well together; forming, by 

 the harmonious combination of their tints, one grand 

 mafs of rich verdure. 



In their fmaller plantations, they employ trees of a 

 fmaller growth, but of the fame concordant forts; bor- 



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