PLANTING. 



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mean planting the whole surface, and trust- 

 ing to future removal for producing that 

 variety acknowledged as essential to the in- 

 tended effect. By this mistaken plan, those 

 undulations of ground, upon which the beauty 

 of the plantation will mainly depend, are 

 buried, and never can be restored with any 

 thing like original character and effect : add 

 to which, the future outline will be described 

 by trees more or less deformed by their in- 

 terior situation, and deprived of that drapery, 

 if we may so term it, which should break the 

 swelling line, and overhang the receding 

 hollow. 



I remember passing by a wood belonging 

 to the Duke of Buccleugh, I think in the 

 neighbourhood of Ecclefeckin, which, from 

 having been partially burnt, offered a perfect 

 model for the mode of planting above recom- 

 mended. 



What has been said with regard to 

 the outline of a wood, will apply equally to 

 a clump, as it is called ; preserving a due 

 proportion according to its extent : indeed, 

 the bad outline of a clump is, perhaps, more 

 offensive than that of a wood, as the massive- 

 ness of the latter, in some measure, atones 



