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where greater extent would show a rich and 

 varied boundary, whatever chokes up, or de- 

 grades such scenes, should of course be re- 

 moved : but where there are no such features, 

 no such boundaries, to appropriate, by destroy- 

 ing many a pleasant meadow, and by showing 

 you, when they are laid into one great com- 

 mon, green enough to surfeit a man in a calen- 

 ture ; to appropriate, by clumping their naked 

 hedge-rows, and planting other clumps and 

 patches of exotics, which seem to stare about 

 them and wonder how they came there; to 

 appropriate, by demolishing many a cheerful 

 retired cottage, that interfered with nothing 

 but the despotic love of exclusion, and make 

 amends, perhaps, by building a village regularly 

 picturesque — is to appropriate, by disgust- 

 ing all whose taste is not insensible or de- 

 praved, just as an alderman appropriates a 

 plate of turtle, by sneezing over it. 



P. 281. 1.5. I believe there are only three sorts of 

 the lower evergreens natural to this coun- 

 try, holly, box, and juniper; to which, on 

 .account of the slowness of its growth, and 

 its doing so well under the drip of other 

 trees, may be added the yew. There is, how- 

 ever, a great variety of exotics which are as 

 hardy as any of our native plants, with many 

 others that will succeed in sheltered spots; 

 and the most scrupulous person will allow, that 

 among fir* and pines, the greatest part of which 



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