ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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From this principal mass, the plantations must break 
oft’ in groups of greater or less size, corresponding to the 
extent covered by it ; if large, they will diverge into 
masses of considerable magnitude, if of moderate size, in 
groups made up of a number of trees. In the lawn front 
of the house, appropriate places will be found for a number 
of the most elegant single trees, or small groups of trees, 
remarkable for the beauty of their forms, foliage, or blos- 
soms. Care must be taken, however, in disposing these, 
as well as many of the groups, that they are not placed so 
as, at some future time, to interrupt or disturb the finest 
points of prospect. 
In more distant parts of the plantations will also appear 
masses of considerable extent, perhaps upon the boundary 
line, perhaps in particular situations on the sides, or in the 
interior of the whole ; and the various groups which are 
distributed between should be so managed as, though in 
most cases distinct, yet to appear to be the connecting 
links which unite these distant shadows in the composition, 
with the larger masses near the house. Sometimes seve- 
ral small groups will be almost joined together ; at others 
the effect may be kept up by a small group, aided by a few 
neighboring single trees. This, for a park-like place. 
Where the place is small, a pleasure-ground character is 
all that can be obtained. But by employing chiefly 
shrubs, and only a few trees, very similar and highly 
beautiful effects may be attained. 
The grand object in all this should be to open to the 
eye, from the windows or front of the house, a wide 
surface, partially broken up and divided by groups and 
masses of trees into a number of pleasing lawns or 
openings, differing in size and appearance, and producing 
