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irregularity , and grouping, therefore, must often be done 
in the most irregular manner — rarely, if ever, with single 
specimens, as every object should seem to connect itself 
with something else — but most frequently there should be 
irregular groups, occasionally running into thickets, and 
always, more or less, touching each other ; trusting to after 
time for any thinning, should it be necessary. Fig. 19, 
may, as compared with fig. 18, give an idea of picturesque 
grouping. 
There should be more of the wildness of the finest and 
most forcible portions of natural woods or forests, in the 
disposition of the trees ; sometimes, planting them closely, 
even two or three in the same hole, at others, more loose 
and scattered. These will grow up into wilder and more 
striking forms, the barks will be deeply furrowed and rough, 
the limbs twisted and irregular, and the forms and outlines 
distinctly varied. They should often be intermixed with 
smaller undergrowth of similar character, as the hazel, 
hawthorn, etc., and formed into such picturesque and strik- 
ing groups, as painters love to study and introduce into 
their pictures. Sturdy and bright vines, or such as are 
themselves picturesque in their festoons and hangings, 
should be allowed to clamber over occasional trees in a neg- 
ligent manner ; and the surface and grass, in parts of the 
scene not immediately in the neighbourhood of the mansion, 
may be kept short by the cropping of animals, or allowed to 
grow in a more careless and loose state, like that of tangled 
dells, and natural woods. 
There will be the same open glades in picturesque, as 
in graceful plantations ; but these openings, in the former, 
will be bounded by groups and thickets of every form, and 
of different degrees of intricacy, while in the latter, the 
