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or yews are the principal evergreens; and 

 where, perhaps, there is the same sort 

 of change in the deciduous underwood. 

 This strikes us with a new impression ; 

 but mix them equally together in all 

 parts, and diversity becomes a source of 

 monotony. 



One great cause of the superior variety 

 and richness of unimproved parks and 

 forests, when compared with lawns and 

 dressed grounds, and of their being so 

 much more admired by painters, is, that 

 the trees and groups are seldom totally 

 alone and unconnected; that they seldom 

 exhibit either of those two principal de- 

 fects in the composition of landscapes, the 

 opposite extremes of being too erouded, 

 or too seattered: whereas the clump is a 

 most unhappy union of them both; it is 

 scattered in respect to the general compo- 

 sition, and close and lumpish when con- 

 sidered by itself. 



Single trees, when they stand alone and 

 are round-headed, have some tendency to- 

 wards the defects of the clump; and it is 



