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character, the planting should be so effected 

 as to hide a considerable portion of that flat- 

 ness. In both cases, the plantations should 

 be massive, and their outline varied. If the 

 general occupation of the land be arable, and 

 consequently divided by hedge-rows, a con- 

 siderable improvement may be effected by 

 planting the corners of some of the fields, so 

 as to unite the angular hedge-row timber into 

 masses of wood. 



But, after all, it will most frequently occur 

 that the principal improvement will be limited 

 to the foreground; and, in all cases, the 

 treatment of that part of the landscape will 

 have the greatest influence upon the whole 

 composition. 



Foregrounds, as connected with the subject 

 before us, are of two kinds. One of these may 

 be termed natural, as consisting of ground, 

 trees, shrubs, &c, either existing in a natural 

 state, or formed on that model. The other 

 may be called architectural, being composed 

 of masonry, as parapets, terraces, flights of 

 steps, &c. 



The more I reflect upon the subject, the 

 greater is my astonishment, and the deeper 

 my regret, that the architectural foreground 



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