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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
ways of approach from one point to another, are, by an 
elegant arrangement of trees on their margins, or adjacent 
to them, made the most interesting and pleasing portions of 
the residence. 
In Geometric gardening, trees disposed in formal lines, 
exhibit as strongly art or design in the contriver, as regu- 
lar architectural edifices ; while, in a more elevated and 
enlightened taste, we are able to dispose them in our plea- 
sure-grounds and parks, around our houses, in all the vari- 
ety of groups, masses, thicket, and single trees, in such a 
manner as to rival the most beautiful scenery of general 
nature ; producing a portion of landscape which unites with 
all the comforts and conveniences of rural habitation, the 
superior charm of refined arrangement, and natural beauty 
of expression. 
If it were necessary to present any other inducement 
to the country gentleman to form plantations of trees, 
than the great beauty and value which they add to his 
estate, we might find it in the pleasure which all derive 
from their cultivation. Unlike the pleasure arising from 
the gratification of our taste in architecture, or any other 
of the arts whose productions are offered to us perfect 
and complete, the satisfaction arising from planting and 
rearing trees is never weakened. “We look/’ says a 
writer, “ upon our trees as our offspring ; and nothing 
of inanimate nature can be more gratifying than to see 
them grow and prosper under our care and attention, — 
nothing more interesting than to examine their progress, 
and mark their several peculiarities. In their progress 
from plants to trees, they every year unfold new and 
characteristic marks of their ultimate beauty, which not 
only compensate for past cares and troubles, but like the 
