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consist in the diversity of separate parts, but " in the diversity 

 of their effects when combined together; in a difference of com- 

 position and character*:" very different from the other is the 

 effect of such a variety; it relieves the eye, and interests the 

 mind, without fatiguing either. 



In forming a plantation with a view to variety, instead of 

 selecting such trees and shrubs as are of opposite character, 

 those differing in the slightest degree are in general much bet- 

 ter adapted to the purpose. 



The upright, spiry form of the larch, mixes very ill with the 

 round head of the oak. But by chusing trees of intermediate 

 forms, and placing them in the interval betweeri these ex- 

 tremes, a natural connexion and gradation will be produced. 

 By this means, with the store of trees and shrubs which we pos- 

 sess, an endless source of variety in woody scenery may be had 

 from the forms of trees and their modes of growth, indepen- 

 dently of any other material of landscape. 



There is another source of variety which arises from group- 

 ing, or the manner in which trees are disposed, more than from 

 the number of distinct species. 



* Price's Essays. 



