hedge with a few trees in it, that has been 

 suffered to grow wild, is a much more 

 varied and effectual screen ; but there are 

 hedges, where yews and hollies are mixed 

 with trees and thorns, so thick from the 

 ground upwards, so diversified in their 

 outline, in the tints, and in the light and 

 shade, that the eye, which dwells on them 

 with pleasure, is perfectly deceived ; and 

 can neither see through them, nor discover 

 (hardly even suspect) their want of depth. 



This striking contrast between a mere 

 hedge, and trees planted for the express 

 purpose of concealment andbeauty, affords 

 a very useful hint not only for screens and 

 boundaries, but for every sort of plantation, 

 where variety and intricacy, not mere 

 profit, are the objects. We may learn 

 from it that concealment, without which 

 there can be no intricacj*, cannot well be 

 produced without a mixture of the smaller 

 growths, such as thorns and hollies; which 

 being naturally bushy, fill up the lower 

 parts where the larger trees are apt to be 

 bare* We may also learn in what manner 



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