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create, what we should be proud of if 

 placed by accident ? With regard to 

 thickets not being suited to dressed 

 scenery, what, let me ask, are those clumps 

 of shrubs and trees of different growths, 

 which at Blenheim and other places, are 

 in the most polished parts of the garden ? 

 They are thickets in point of concealment, 

 and of variety in the outline of the sum- 

 mit, and so far they differ from those 

 clumps which are planted with the larger 

 trees only; their difference from the forest 

 thicket, is, that they are chiefly composed 

 of exotics, and that, from the original 

 line of the digging being preserved, and 

 from their never having been thinned by 

 means of cutting, or of the bite of animals, 

 they remain in one uniform round or oval. 

 Were such clumps thinned, and inlets 

 made by a judicious improver, and were 

 the line of digging effaced, they would 

 soon have the variety of forest thickets : 

 and on the other hand, were a forest 

 thicket dug round, planted up, and pre- 

 served, it would soon have the heaviness 



