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larches of very large size and varied in- 

 clination, entwining their elegantly sweeping 

 branches with the more masculine arms of 

 the spruce fir, and other trees of deep foliage, 

 form a study worthy the pencil of Turner. 



The mansion of early date is usually sur- 

 rounded by trees of a corresponding age and 

 size ; which, as we have seen*, may frequently 

 require partial removal, both for the improve- 

 ment of the general composition of the scene, 

 and that of the trees themselves, by throwing 

 them into groups that shall produce a cor- 

 responding foreground. Trees thus con- 

 nected with building are, I conceive, to be 

 estimated rather by their appropriate charac- 

 ter than by their intrinsic merit or individual 

 beauty. 



The cedar of Lebanon adorns alike the 

 gayer lawn of the Grecian mansion, and the 

 deeper recesses of the manorial pile ; and 

 rash indeed must be the hand that would 

 remove it from either. But, had I the choice 

 between the oak and the elm as accompani- 

 ments, especially to the manorial architec- 

 ture, I should not hesitate to prefer the 

 latter, as far more consonant with the general 



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