PART VIII. 



PICTURESQUE 



PLANTING. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



OF THE SUBJECTS OF PLANTING, OR DIFFERENT KINDS OF 



PLANTATIONS. 



These may be reduced to — 1. A grove, or a collection of trees 

 without undergrowth ; 2. A wood or forest, or a collection of 

 trees with undergrowth ; 3. Copsewood, or undergrowth alone. 

 4. Groups, composed of never fewer than two trees, or a tree 

 and a shrub ; and 5. Avenues, or single rows of trees in diffe- 

 rent directions, and fof different purposes of fancy or use. 



1. Groves are of two kinds. The first is generally made for 

 ornament in parks. They are uninclosed ; admit the pasture 

 to grow below them ; and appear, when we are walking 

 through them, as a large collection of single trees. The se- 

 cond kind is composed of the pine or fir tribe. These are com- 

 monly planted on hills, moors, or commons ; they are thicker 

 than the former ; they effectually prevent the growth of pas- 

 ture ; and are for the most part enclosed. The character of 

 the former is generally solemnity and beauty ; of the latter 

 chiefly picturesqueness. Groves are at first planted equally 



