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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
true, the management of the growth of any vine, however 
luxuriant, is so completely within the power of the cultivator, 
that by a very trifling annual attention, he can entirely pre- 
vent the possibility of any such injurious effects. 
The reader must not imagine, from the remarks which we 
have here made on the beauty and charms of climbing plants, 
that we would desire to see every tree, in an extensive 
park, wreathed about, and overhung, with fantastic vines and 
creepers. Such is by no means our intention. We should 
consider such a proceeding as something in the worst possi- 
ble taste. There are some trees whose rugged and ungrace- 
ful forms would refuse all such accompaniment ; and others 
from whose dignity and majesty it would be improper to de- 
tract, even by adding the gracefulness of the loveliest vine. 
Such, too, is never the case in nature, as, for one tree 
decked in this manner we see a hundred which are not, and 
the very rarity of the example imparts additional beauty and 
interest to it when it appears. This should be the case in 
all artificial plantations ; and he who has a true and lively 
feeling for the graceful and picturesque, will easily under- 
stand at a glance where these expressions will be strength- 
ened or weakened by the addition of more grace and ele- 
gance. A few scattered trees here and there, with whose 
forms the plans adopted harmonize, draped and festooned 
with the most appropriate climbing plants, will be all that 
can be properly introduced in any scene, unless it be of a 
very artificial character ; but even these additional acces- 
sories, simple as they may seem, often produce an effect 
singularly beautiful, which shows how much in real land- 
scape, as well as in painting, depends upon a few finishing 
touches to the scene. 
Although we are not now writing of buildings, it is not 
