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nature * that " rich, ample, and flowing 

 robe which she should wear on her throned 

 eminence," instead of " hill united to hill 

 with sweeping train of forest, with prodi- 

 gality of shade," she is curtailed of her fair 

 proportions, pinched and squeezed into 

 shape ; and the prim squat clump is perked 

 up exactly on the top of every eminence, 

 Sometimes, however, where the extent is 

 so great, that common sized clumps would 

 make no figure, it has been very inge- 

 niously contrived to consolidate (and I 

 am sure the word is not improperly used) 

 several of them in one larger lump, and 

 these condensed, unwieldly masses, are at 

 random stuck about the grounds. 



In many such plantations the trees 



* Mr. Mason's Poem on Modem Gardening, is so well 

 known to all who have any taste for the subject, or for 

 poetry in general, that it is hardly necessary to say, that the 

 words between the inverted commas are chiefly taken from 

 it. In the part from which I have taken these two pas- 

 sages, he has pointed out the noblest style of planting in a, 

 style of poetry no less noble and elevated, 



