42 PLANTING. 



necessary, objects of ornament ; or, when it is requisite to obscure 

 a portion of the boundary, or any offensive object, trees with a pic- 

 turesque irregularity of outHne are best to be adopted, since the real 

 intention will be concealed. 



It is bad taste to plant in a form similar to the object intended to be 

 hidden. It is also desirable to vary the forms of plantations, as they 

 recede or advance ; by this the most pleasing effects may be pro- 

 duced. The principles of perspective will here be as applicable as in 

 drawing, by which single trees and groups may be so disposed as 

 to assist in giving an appearance of extent : here also the colours 

 of the foliage are to be particularly attended to, and arranged so 

 as to harmonize and to aid the assumed increase of extent ; the 

 effect which may be thus produced is admirable, and may be con- 

 sidered one of the triumphs of the art of Landscape Gardening. 



The practice of inclosing grounds with thick masses of plantations 

 should be avoided ; because, in a decided manner, they define that 

 which should be imaginary ; and parts are made to project which 

 ought to recede. Where thick plantations and broad masses of 

 shade exist in the distance, they mar the effect of beautiful land- 

 scape, encroach upon the limits of the ground, and evidently betray 

 how far the hand of art has been directed. No true admirer of land- 

 scape scenery will admit, that surrounding the grounds with a belt, 

 or thick plantation, which every where marks the termination of 

 property, can be reconcileable with good taste. It is nevertheless 



