PART VIJI. PICTURESQUE PLANTING. 4?3 



parative rarity and very uncommon shape, as the creeping ash 

 and the stone pine. Others have the character of elegance and 

 novelty in a less degree, as the cedar of Libanus and the cy- 

 press ; the hemlock spruce and the scarlet oak. 



It deserves to be remarked, that accidental characters de- 

 pend entirely upon novelty and rarity. Some trees, common 

 in England, are seldom observed in the north of Scotland, and 

 would there be denominated highly elegant, as the weeping 

 willow, the narrow-leaved elm, or the accacia ; others common 

 and unnoticed there are esteemed highly elegant in England, 

 as the arbutus, uva ursi, the erica alles, and even the moun- 

 tain ash. 



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