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to preserve the brushwood and the outer 

 trees upon all sides, for these hold the woods 

 together and give shelter from sun and wind. 

 In coarse, dry, and hot sands, low and continu- 

 ous covert should be maintained, and every 

 effort made to encourage trees of dense leaf 

 such as are generally shy of dry soils. To this 

 end trees of different ages are better than a 

 uniform age. 



This varies with the nature of 

 the soil, and is always a sign 

 of neglect, since it absorbs to its own profit 



Living Covert. 



LANDSCAPE AND WOODLAND 

 PICTURES BY THE MASTER 

 PAINTERS. 



No landscape painter ever interpreted 

 the true character of the picturesque 

 more happily than the Swiss painter 

 Calame. He commenced his career by 

 colouring little prints of Swiss scenery 

 for a mere pittance, but, through his 

 painstaking work he gradually acquired 



LAKE SCENE IN SWITZERLAND BY CALAME. 



reserves of nourishment in the soil and is a 

 hindrance to natural renewal. Even when 

 young seedlings gain a footing in spite of it, 

 they are weak through having to compete 

 with other plants. Even such covert is better 

 than none, for it holds the soil together and 

 protects it from being wasted by rains or 

 parched by heat, and yields elements to the 

 soil from which the trees can profit. — Les 

 Forets. 



such mastery of form and colour as to 

 attempt original subjects, becoming, 

 after many disappointments and some 

 failures, one of the greatest landscape 

 painters of his time. He has left many 

 paintings,and amongst the finest of them 

 — mostly painted towards the close of 

 his life — is " Monte Rosa after Sunset," 



