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ceflary to enter fomething farther into the 

 detail of his practice of what has been lu- 

 dicroufly called clumping and belting. No 

 man of tafte can hefitate betwixt the na- 

 tural group of trees, compofed of various 

 growths, and that formal patch of firs 

 which too often disfigure a lawn, under 

 the name of a clump : but the moft certain 

 method of producing a group of five or fix 

 trees, is to plant fifty or fixty within the 

 fame fence ; and this Mr. Brown frequently 

 advifed, with a mixture of firs to protect 

 and lhelter the young trees during their 

 infancy ; but, unfortunately, the neglect or 

 bad tafte of his employers would occafion- 

 ally fuffer the firs to remain long after they 

 had completed their office as nurfes ; while 

 others have actually planted jirs only in 

 fuch clumps, totally mifconceiving Mr, 

 Brown's original intention. Nor is it un- 

 common to fee thefe black patches fur- 

 rounded 



