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usual accompaniments to habitation. Con- 

 sidered, likewise, in another point of view, 

 they are seldom seen to such advantage in 

 other situations ; the effect of blossoms, 

 however gay and chearful, is often spotty 

 and glaring; but I have frequently ob- 

 served, that when they are seen near stone 

 buildings or houses of a light colour, the 

 whole is upon the same scale of colour- 

 ing, and produces a highly brilliant, but 

 harmonious picture. Should the taste of 

 improvers be turned towards the embellish- 

 ment of villages, a variety of such standard 

 fruit-trees might be introduced, as are re- 

 markable in their different kinds, not only 

 for their goodness, but for the beauty of 

 their blossoms and fruit. 



It might not perhaps be expected thajt 

 a lover of painting and pf picturesque cir- 

 cumstances, shpuld speak of trees nailed 

 close to a wall, or of clipped hedges, as 

 objects jthat are pleasing to the eye : it is 

 certain, however, that both of them do give 

 pleasure, .though of .a totally different, kind 



