ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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[Fig. 22. View of a Picturesque farm ( ferme ornee ).] 
or pastured. The fields in crops are designated h, on the 
plan ; and a few picturesque groups of trees are planted, 
or allowed to remain, in these, to keep up the general 
character of the place. A low dell, or rocky thicket, is 
situated at i,. Exceedingly interesting and agreeable 
effects may be produced, at little cost, in a picturesque 
farm of this kind. The hedges may be of a great variety 
of suitable shrubs, and, in addition to those that we have 
named, we would introduce others of the sweet brier, the 
Michigan or prairie rose (admirably adapted for the 
purpose), the flowering crab, and the like — beautiful and 
fragrant in their growth and blossoms. These hedges we 
would cause to grow thick, rather by interlacing the 
branches, than by constant shearing or trimming, which 
would give them a less formal, and a more free and 
natural air. The winding lanes traversing the farm need 
