ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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the most striking part or parts of the prospect (near the 
house for example) to answer this end. This should be 
done, not by planting a continuous, uniformly thick belt of 
trees round the outside of the whole ; but by so arranging 
the various outer groups and thickets, that when seen from 
the given points they shall appear connected in one whole. 
In this way, there will be an agreeable variation in the 
margin, made by the various bays, recesses, and detached 
projections, which could not be so well effected, if the 
whole were one uniformly unbroken strip of wood. 
But where the house is so elevated as to command a 
more extensive view than is comprised in the demesne 
itself, another course should be adopted. The grounds 
planted must be made to connect themselves with the 
surrounding scenery, so as not to produce any violent 
contrast to the eye, when compared with the adjoining 
country. If then, as is most frequently the case, the lawn 
or pleasure-ground join, on either side or sides, cultivated 
farm lands, the proper connexion may be kept up by 
advancing a few groups or even scattered trees into the 
neighboring fields. In the middle states there are but few 
cultivated fields, even in ordinary farms, where there is 
not to be seen, here and there, a handsome cluster of 
saplings or a few full grown trees ; or if not these, at 
least some tall growing bushes along the fences, all of 
which, by a little exercise of this leading principle of 
connexion, can, by the planter of taste, be made to appear 
with few or trifling additions, to divaricate from, and 
ramble out of the park itself. Where the park joins 
natural woods, connexion is still easier, and where it 
bounds upon one of our noble rivers, lakes, or other large 
sneets of water, of course connexion is not expected ; foi 
