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Though there will be a variety in the forms 

 of the plantations, there should be a general 

 harmony of outline between them when they 

 approach each other ; the more swelling part 

 of one opposing itself to the recess of the 

 other. The nearer masses should generally 

 be of lower material than the more remote, 

 that the one may occasionally be seen over 

 the other. Where the dress ground is of 

 such dimensions as to allow these masses 

 upon a large scale, the variety of their re- 

 spective forms should be boldly marked, as, 

 in the course of a few years, they ought to be 

 broken. A few of the choicest plants will 

 then occupy the space that present effect 

 requires to be filled up with common mate- 

 rial. For this purpose, care should be taken, 

 in the first instance, to dispose of the choice 

 plants before the mass is filled up, so that 

 the former shall hereafter stand where they 

 ought ; whereas, for want of this precaution, 

 a cedar of Lebanon may, when grown up, 

 destroy the composition which, had it been 

 rightly placed, it would have materially im- 

 proved. For places where a cedar of Leba- 

 non, or any of the larger firs, might be 

 thought too big, the Virginia cedar or the 



