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forest trees in irregular lines and rather close to each other, as 

 they can, after a few years, be thinned out. The species are 

 well mixed and, as said before, prominences and recesses are 

 formed on the outlines. 



There must be a marked difference between the plantations of 

 the park and those of the garden close to the house. In the 

 former, as has been said, all the disposition of planting and the 

 choice of the plants must be in harmony with the surrounding 

 landscape. In the latter the planting may be more apparently 



Fig. 2v — DisposiTiox of Trees .v^'d Shrubs ix Groups. 



connected with the design of the garden. The plants should be 

 finer, and may also be of exotic origin, which, by their growth 

 and tint of foliage, are such as we are accustomed to find in a 

 garden. In the park we have "plantations"': in the garden we 

 have to a certain extent a ''collection of plants." The planting 

 in a garden is not proceeded with in the same way ; trees are 

 never on a line, and all regularity in the distances is avoided. 

 The big trees of first height (Xo. i) in Fig. 25 are 12ft. to i8ft. 

 from each other, and those of second height fill the intervals, 

 and are more on the sides of the group. The shrubs (No. 3) 



