PART VIII. 



PICTURESQUE PLANTING. 



453 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE OBJECTS OF PLANTING. 



The different purposes for which plantations are made may 

 be comprehended in two general divisions, ornament and 

 utility. ' 



Wherever ornament is the principal consideration, there 

 must be a particular effect, or union of qualities or character, 

 which the artist intends to produce. As in this material of 

 landscape I consider ornament to consist in natural beauty (and 

 not in the appearance of art, either in the form or disposition of 

 trees) ; so these effects will generally be a beautiful variety, or 

 a picturesque variety, in small plantations — A degree of gran- 

 deur or sublimity in woods, forests, or such as are of consi- 

 derable extent: and particular character, contrast^ or intricacy 

 in single trees. 



It will naturally occur to every one who has attended to the 

 Essay on Taste in this work, that where a beautiful variety is to 

 be produced, the most graceful and delicate forms, the most 

 pleasing colours, and the most fragrant smells, must be col- 

 lected and arranged together, according to the principles of 

 this expression* '. 



* See Part I. Chap. III. 



