CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER ir. 



Trees considered generally 359 



Necessary accompaniments to rocks, mountains, and to every 



kind of ground and water oqq 



An exception with regard to the sea ibid. 



The variety and intricacy of trees • • * 262 



Those which are fullest of leaves, not always preferred by 



painters • •••• . 263 



The reasons » . . . 264 



Plantations made for ornament, the least suited to the painter 265 

 The established trees of the country ought to prevail in the new 



plantations 26§ 



Note • • ibid. 



Larches, and all painted firs, make a bad general outline; and 



as they outgrow the oak, &c. nothing else appears 269 



Fascinating deformity of a clump, compared to that of a wart 



or excrescence on the human face 272 



Even large plantations of firs, have a harsh effect, from their 



not harmonizing with the natural woods of the country • • • • 273 

 The necessity of a proper balance in all scenery, both in point 



of form, and of colour ibid. 



One cause of the heaviness of fir plantations, is their closeness 274 

 Appearance of the outside of a close fir plantation — of the 



inside 275 



Different appearance in a grove of spreading pines 276 



Fir plantation improper for screens 277 



A common hedge often a most effectual screen « 279 



This points out the necessity of a mixture of thorns, hollies and 



the lower growths, in all screens: likewise in ornamental 



plantations • • ibia\ 



The advantage of such a mixture, if a plantation should be 



thinned after long neglect • 280 



Contrast of such a plantation, with a close wood of firs only •• 281 

 Its variety would not arise merely from a diversity of plants— 



variejty in forests produced by a few species 286 



Continual and unvaried diversity, a source and a species of 



monotony * 287 



