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a third clump would have marked the straight 

 line, he has supposed himself at the exact 

 point from which only two of them could be 

 introduced into the drawing; and to this 

 painter-like liberty, he has added that of vary- 

 ing their forms, so as to give them some ap- 

 pearance of natural groups. Mr. Repton 

 cannot be ignorant that when trees have long 

 been pressed on each side by others, whenever 

 one or more of them are left separate, two of 

 their sides must be naked and flattened ; and 

 that although by degrees the nakedness is 

 clothed with small boughs and with leaves, 

 hardly any length of time will make the flat- 

 ness completely disappear. This is what on 

 such occasions ought fairly to be stated ; and 

 if a drawing or engraving be made, ought 

 fairly to be represented : but it is singular that 

 the person who has most strongly written 

 against the use of applying painting to land- 

 scape gardening, should have furnished the 

 most flagrant instance of its abuse. 



271.1.11. Vanity is a general enemy to all im- 

 provement; and there is no such enemy to the 

 real improvement of the beauty of grounds, as 

 the foolish vanity of making a parade of their 

 extent, and of exhibiting various uninteresting 

 marks of the owner's property, under the title of 

 "Appropriation." Where there are any noble 

 features that are debased by meaner objects, 



