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to assist this effect ; he delights in occasional irregularity 
of stem and outline, and he therefore suffers his trees here 
and there to crowd each other ; he admires a twisted limb 
or a moss covered branch, and in pruning he therefore is 
careful to leave precisely what it would be the aim of the 
other to remove ; and his pruning, where it is at all neces- 
sary, is directed rather towards increasing the naturally 
striking and peculiar habit of the picturesque tree, than 
assisting it in developing a form of unusual refinement and 
symmetry. From these remarks we think the amateur 
will easily divine, that planting, grouping, and culture to 
produce the Beautiful, require a much less artistic eye 
(though much more care and attention) than performing 
the same operations to elicit the Picturesque. The charm 
of a refined and polished landscape garden, as we usually 
see it in the Beautiful grounds with all the richness and 
beauty developed by high culture, arises from our admira- 
tion of the highest perfection, the greatest beauty of form, 
to which every object can be brought ; and, in trees, a 
judicious selection, w r ith high cultivation, will always pro- 
duce this effect. 
But in the Picturesque landscape garden there is visible 
a piquancy of effect, certain bold and striking growths 
and combinations, wdiich we feel at once, if we know them 
to be the result of art, to be the production of a peculiar 
species of attention — not merely good, or even refined 
ornamental gardening. In short, no one can be a pictu- 
resque improver (if he has to begin with young plantations) 
who is not himself something of an artist — who has not 
studied nature with an artistical eye — and who is not 
capable of imitating, eliciting, or heightening, in his plan- 
tations or other portions of his residence, the picturesque 
