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with other groups, to some apparently in- 

 significant, and to many eyes, even ugly 

 trees. To attend to all these niceties of 

 outline, connection, and grouping, would 

 require much time as well as skill, and 

 therefore a more easy and compendious 

 method has been adopted : the different 

 groups are to be cleared round, till they 

 become as clump-like as their untrained 

 natures will allow; and even many of those 

 outside trees which belong to the groups 

 themselves, and to which they owe, not 

 only their beauty, but their security against 

 wind and frost, are cut down without pity, 

 if they will not range according to a pre- 

 scribed model ; till mangled, starved, and 

 cut off from all connection, these unhappy 

 newly drilled corps 



" Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves." 



Even the old avenue, w.iose branches 

 had intertwined with each other for ages, 

 must undergo this fashionable metamor- 

 phosis. The object of the improver is to 



