ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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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, ferine orn6e, and cottage grounds. General classification of tree 
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.” 
mental, so indispensable, and so easily managed, as trees, or 
wood. We introduce them in every part of the landscape, 
— in the foreground as well as in the distance, on the tops 
of the hills and in the depths of the valleys. They are, in- 
deed, 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 in its prime, venerable and picturesque in its old 
Pope. 
M O N G all the materials at our disposal 
for the embellishment of country resi- 
dences, none are at once so highly orna- 
