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his master could boast, with a more correct taste, and a 

 more vivid fancy, White had a juster discernment of the 

 true style in which the principles of artificial should be 

 appKed to the improvement of real landscape. He was a 

 superior draughtsman, and possessed a thorough know- 

 ledge of the principles of design; and had it not been 

 for the professional trammels by which he was confined, 

 he probably would have anticipated, as well as illustrated 

 in his own designs, those more correct notions of park 

 scenery which Sir Uvedale Price and Mr Knight after- 

 wards had the merit of bringing into notice.'" As it was. 

 White rather yielded to, than approved of, the fashion of 

 the day : accordingly, he gave a belt and clumps to all 

 the new places he laid out, and sometimes to the old 

 ones, which he so ingeniously improved. 



Although my little park was not deficient in these 

 necessary appendages, it must not be imagined that such 

 formal plantations, and especially the clumps, were ever 

 intended to be permanent by this able artist. On the 

 contrary, they were meant to act as kindly and sheltering 

 masses to a very open subject, and as the only means of 

 protecting and getting up good single trees, and loose 

 dispositions of wood. I therefore trenched the ground 

 by his advice, and took from it a potato crop (after the 

 manner directed in the foregoing section) before being 

 planted. About the twelfth or fifteenth year after the 

 clumps were planted, I began to cut away the Larch and 

 Spruce Firs. These had been introduced merely as nurses 

 to the deciduous trees; and from the warmth and shelter 

 they had afforded, and the previous double-digging, the 

 whole had rushed up with singular rapidity. The next 

 thing I did was to thin out the trees to single distance, so 



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