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such a mixture produces variety of outline; 

 for in a hedge such as I have described, 

 the lower growths do not prevent the higher 

 from extending their heads, while at the 

 same time by their different degrees of 

 height, more or less approaching to that 

 of the timber trees, they accompany and 

 group with them, and prevent that formal 

 disconnected appearance, which hedgerow 

 trees left alone, after every thing has been 

 completely cleared from them, almost al- 

 ways present. 



If by such means a mere single line of 

 hedge becomes an effectual and varied 

 screen, of course a deeper plantation con- 

 ducted on the same principles would be a 

 much more varied boundary, and more 

 impenetrable to the eye; and it seems to 

 me, that if this method were followed in 

 all ornamental plantations, it would, in a 

 srreat measure, obviate the bad effects of 

 their being left too close, either from fool- 

 ish fondness, or neglect. Suppose, for in- 

 stance, that instead of the usual method 

 of making an evergreen plantation of firs 



