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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
and some species of oak, may be taken as examples. In 
Picturesque plantations everything depends on intricacy 
and 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. 17 
may, as compared with Fig. 16, 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 a similar character, as the hazel, 
hawthorn, etc., and formed into such picturesque and strik 
