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bends and inclinations of their stems. This may be produced, 

 by planting two or more trees or shrubs in one hole, of different 

 kinds, or the same kinds of different sizes, &c. and connect- 

 ing these by others straggling round them. The most beauti- 

 ful examples for this work are to be found in natural forests, or 

 in woody banks and commons, where trees have sprung up 

 accidentally. 



Plate XX. is intended to shew the manner in which small 

 masses and groups of trees may be grown, without giving a 

 clump-like appearance to the inclosure. The general forms of 

 the masses in fig. 1. may be infinitely varied on a level surface: 

 on an irregular one, they should bear a correspondency to it, 

 as there shewn. These forms are copied from the working-plan 

 for planting Barnbarrow, and upon the grounds have an intri- 

 cate appearance, and considerable effect even from the fences 

 and the young trees already planted. On all level surfaces the 

 same thing may be done with equal ease, as I have proved at 

 Mountwhannie and other parts of Barnbarrow. It must be 

 evident, indeed, to every one, that the principle is universally 

 applicable, and consequently there never can be the smallest 

 apology for the clump. Fig. 1. represents the manner in which 

 I construct a working-plan for forming plantations, and by 

 means of which no gardener can go wrong with regard to the 

 species of tree. Fig. 2. shews the effect of the improvements : 



