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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
SECTION III. 
ON WOOD. 
The beauty of Trees in Rural Embellishments. Pleasure resulting from their cultivation. 
Plantations in the Ancient Style ; their formality. In the Modern Style ; grouping trees. 
Arrangement and grouping in the Graceful school ; in the Picturesque school. Illustra- 
tions in planting villa, ferme ornee, and cottage grounds. General classification of trees 
as to forms, with leading characteristics of each class. 
“ He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, 
Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. 
Calls in the country, catches opening glades, 
Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades; 
Now breaks, or now directs the intending lines; 
Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.” 
indispensable, and so easily managed, as trees , or wood. We 
introduce them in every part of the landscape, — in the fore- 
ground as well as in the distance, on the tops of the hills and 
in the depths of the valleys. They are, indeed, like the 
drapery which covers a somewhat ungainly figure, and while 
it conceals its defects, communicates to it new interest and 
expression. 
A tree, undoubtedly, is one of the most beautiful objects in 
nature. Airy and delicate in its youth, luxuriant and majestic 
Pope, 
MONG all the materials at our disposal 
for the embellishment of country residences, 
none are at once so highly ornamental, so 
