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scene, the colouring is deep, rich, and full in the foreground, 
more tender and mellow in the middle-ground, and softening 
to a pale tint in the distance. 
“ Where to the eye three well marked distances 
Spread their peculiar colouring, vivid green, 
Warm brown, and black opake the foreground bears 
Conspicuous : sober olive coldly marks 
The second distance : thence the third declines 
In softer blue, or lessening still, is lost 
In fainted purple. When thy taste is call’d 
To deck a scene where nature’s self presents 
All these distinct gradations, then rejoice 
As does the Painter, and like him apply 
Thy colours : plant thou on each separate part 
Its proper foliage.” 
Advantage may occasionally be taken of this peculiarity in 
the gradation of colour, in Landscspe Gardening, by the crea- 
tion, as it were, of an artificial distance. In grounds and 
scenes of limited extent, the apparent size and breadth may 
be increased, by planting a majority of the trees in the fore- 
ground, of dark tints, and the boundary with foliage of a much 
lighter hue. In the same way, the apparent breadth of a piece 
of water will be greatly added to, by placing the paler color- 
ed trees on the shore opposite to the spectator. These hints 
will suggest other ideas and examples of a similar nature, 
to the minds of those who are alive to the more minute and 
exquisite beauties of the landscape. 
An acquaintance, individually, with the different species of 
trees of indigenous and foreign growth, which may be culti- 
vated with success in this climate, is absolutely essential to 
the amateur, or the professor of Landscape Gardening. The 
tardiness or rapidity of their growth, the periods at which 
