PART VIII. 



PICTURESQUE PLANTING. 



535 



€HAPTER V. 



OF THE FORMATION OF PLANTATIONS. 



SECT. I. OF THE OUTLINE OF PLANTATIONS. 



The outline or boundary of plantations must be determined 

 by the character which they are to assume. A tree being a 

 picturesque object, all wood is consequently so ; and as the 

 addition of wood to ground is always an addition of pic- 

 turesqueness, (though often mixed with grandeur or beauty,) 

 hence the propriety of an irregular or picturesque outline in 

 every kind of plantation. When the character to be produced 

 is grandeur, the bounding line should consist of bold, angular 

 prominences, succeeded by deep incisions, forming large bays 

 and promontories ; and. to give these still greater effect, and 

 vary their outline against the sky, they should be adapted to 

 the variations of the ground, the bays being in the hollows, and 

 the promontories on the eminences. In this mixture of curves 

 and straight lines, the former should generally be obtuse and 

 convex, and the latter of considerable length. All should ap- 



