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distances, sometimes in concave and projecting parts, terminations, 
&c., will have a very agreeable effect in their long, bending, arched 
branches, and numerous pendulous shoots, suspended over the 
vtater in a loose waving manner, sometimes sweeping the surface 
thereof; and when arrived to some considerable growth in their 
numerous low pendent branches suspended all round, display an 
air of peculiar solemn grandeur. 
The various compartments of ground intended for the different 
plantations should be digged or trenched for the reception of the 
plants, particularly for all plantations of shrubbery, and wilderness 
quarters, flower compartments, &c.; and the ground for clumps 
should, if not thought too expensive, be raised above the common 
level in a gentle swell; especially all detached compartments, such 
as shrubbery clumps, and flower partitions; and most other de- 
tached compartments of ground for any kind of ornamental plant- 
ing in gardens. These should generally be raised in a moderate 
rounding swell gradually from each side to the middle; or for any 
continued side plantation, it may be raised in a gentle slope; for 
the swelling and sloping figure always strikes the eye the most 
agreeably, as well as shows the plants to the best advantage. 
But where intended to have groves of stately trees, or any straight 
ranges of trees, either single or double lines, forming a walk or 
avenue, it is most in character to dispose them all on grass-ground, 
in which they will appear most rural and beautiful. 
Likewise elegant ornamental trees, both as single standards and 
in detached groups or clumps, appear the most beautiful when 
disposed on spacious openings of grass-ground. 
All the plantation compartments of shrubbery, wilderness, &c. 
should be planted with some considerable variety of different sorts 
of trees, shrubs and flowers, artfully disposed in various arrange- 
ments; the tallest behind, the lowest forward, and the different 
sorts so intermixed as to display a beautiful diversity of foliage 
and flowers, disposing the more curious kinds contiguous to the 
principal walks and lawns. 
Observing, that as trees and shrubs are of two different tribes, 
deciduous and evergreen kinds, those of each tribe should be 
mostly planted in separate clumps, in which they will effect the 
most agreeable variety; and in some places may exhibit clumps 
composed of both sorts to cause the greater diversity; and many 
of the most conspicuous deciduous compartments may be embel- 
lished towards the fronts with some showy evergreens, thinly dis- 
persed; which will appear ornamental and lively in winter, when 
the deciduous plants are destitute of leaves. 
In planting the several shrubbery clumps, &c., some may be 
entirely of trees, but the greater part an assemblage of trees and 
shrubs together; some entirely of the low shrub kind, in different 
situations, between and in front of the larger growths; likewise 
should intersperse most of the shrubbery and wilderness compart- 
ments with a variety of hardy herbaceous flowery plants of different 
growths, having also here and there clumps entirely of herbaceous 
perennials: the distribution or arrangement of the clumps and 
