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certain expedient for producing future 

 beauty, is to prepare and fence the ground, 

 and to fet more plants than are meant to 

 remain ; for the young plants mult neither 

 be ftunted, browfed, nor ftarved. But 

 where thofe maffes (as is ufually the cafe) 

 are formed of trees of equal growths, and 

 left clofe together in one thick lump, the 

 variety they give to any ground fcarcely 

 deferves that name. The remedy I pro- 

 pofed* (after ftating the defects of the 

 ufual method) was to mix a large pro- 

 portion of the lower growths in every 

 plantation ; this, in my opinion, would 

 not only prevent their flat, heavy, uniform 

 appearance, but would alfo furnifh means 

 for varying and foftening the abrupt lines 

 of their outfide boundaries, and correct- 

 ing, that folitary, infulated look which they 

 ftill would have. The method of doing it 

 which I mould recommend, would be to 



* EfTay on the Pidturefque, page 309. 



take, 



