ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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remedy disease, or to correct a bad form. Above all, the 
full luxuriance and development of the tree should be en- 
couraged by good soil, and repeated manurings when 
necessary ; and that most expressively elegant fall and 
droop of the branches, which so entirely belongs to the 
Graceful school, should never be warred against by any 
trimming of the lower branches, which must also be care- 
fully preserved against cattle, whose browsing line , would 
soon efface this most beautiful disposition in some of our 
fine lawn trees. Clean smooth stems, fresh and tender bark, 
and a softly rounded, pyramidal or drooping head, are the 
characteristics of a graceful tree. We need not add that 
gently sloping ground, or surfaces rolling in easy undula- 
tions, should accompany such plantations. 
Planting and grouping in the Picturesque school. 
All trees are admissible in a picturesque place, but a 
predominance must be used by the planter, of what are 
truly called picturesque trees, of which the larch and fir 
tribe, and the oak, may be taken as examples. In the 
[Fig. 19. Grouping in the Picturesque mode.] 
Picturesque school, every thing depends on intricacy , and 
