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intuitively by persons who, perhaps, would themselves be 
incapable of describing the cause of their gratification, but 
would perceive the contrary at once ; as many are unable 
to analyse the pleasure derived from harmony in music, 
while they at once perceive the introduction of discordant 
notes. 
We do not intend that this principle should apply so 
closely, that extensive grounds naturally picturesque shall 
have nothing of the softening touches of more perfect 
beauty ; or that a demesne characterized by the latter ex- 
pression should not be occasionally enlivened with a few 
“ smart touches ” of the former. This is often necessary, 
indeed, to prevent tame scenery from degenerating into 
insipidity, or picturesque into wildness, too great to be 
appropriate in a country residence. Picturesque trees 
give new spirit to groups of highly beautiful ones, and the 
latter sometimes heighten by contrast the value of the 
former. All of which, however, does not prevent the 
predominance of the leading features of either style, suffi- 
ciently strong to mark it as such ; while, occasionally, 
something of zest or elegance may be borrowed from the 
opposite character, to suit the wishes or gratify the taste 
of the proprietor. 
Ground plans of ornamental plantations. To 
illustrate partially our ideas on the arrangement of plan- 
tations we place before the reader two or three examples, 
premising that the small scale to which they are reduced 
prevents our giving to them any character beyond that of 
the general one of the design. The first (Fig. 20) repre- 
sents a portion, say one third or one half of a piece of 
property selected for a country seat, and which has hitherto 
been kept in tillage as ordinary farm land. The public 
