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which principally shew themselves are 

 larches, and they produce the most com- 

 pleat monotony of outline. The summits of 

 round-headed trees, especially the oak, 

 vary in each tree ; but there can only be 

 one form in those of pointed trees * : on 

 that account, wherever ornament is the 

 aim, great care ought to be taken that the 

 general outline be round and full, and only 

 partially broken and varied by pointed 

 trees, and that too many of those should 

 not rise above the others, so as principally 

 to catch the eye. Now wherever larches 

 are mixed, even in a small proportion, over 

 the whole of a plantation, the quickness of 

 their growth, their pointed tops, and the 

 peculiarity of their colour, make them so 

 conspicuous, that the whole wood seems to 

 consist of nothing else. 



I have seen two places on a very large 

 scale laid out by a professed improver of 

 high reputation f , where all the defects 



* Linea recta velut sola est, & njille recurvse. 



■f Some persons have imagined, that by a professor of 



