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neglected look, should be extirpated and 

 the grass encouraged ; and by such means, 

 while the rude entangled look of a brake 

 is destroyed, richness, variety, and conceal- 

 ment, may be created, or preserved. But 

 even if it were a Settled point that nothing 

 but timber trees ought to have place in a 

 lawn, still the best method of raising them 

 so as to produce present effect without fu- 

 ture injury, would be to mix a large pro- 

 portion of the lower growths, till the tim- 

 ber trees were grown to a sufficient size ; 

 and then — if he who should then view 

 their effect altogether could give such an 

 order — every thing round them might be 

 cleared. 



In speaking of artificial hillocks,* I 



* The word hillock, is, I believe, in general confined to 

 natural swellings of ground : I have, however, the au- 

 thority of Mr. Mason for using it in this sense, even with- 

 out the addition of the word artificial. In the second book 

 of the English Garden, where he is giving instructions how 

 a flat scene may be improved, he observes that the genius 

 of such a scene may be " lifted from his dreary couch" by 

 " Pillowing his head with swelling hillocks green." 



My instructions have the same tendency, though delivered 

 in humbler language. 



