ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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support them. The weeping willow seeks an humble 
scene — some romantic footpath bridge, which it half 
conceals, or some grassy pool over which it hangs its 
streaming foliage, 
‘ And dips 
Its pendent boughs, as if to drink.’ ” * 
The manner in which a picturesque bit of landscape 
can be supported by picturesque spiry-topped trees, and 
its expression degraded by the injudicious employment 
of graceful drooping trees, will be apparent to the reader 
in the two accompanying little sketches. In the first (Fig. 
27), the abrupt hill, the rapid 
S mountain torrent, and the distant 
Alpine summits, are in fine keep- 
ing with the tall spiry larches and 
[Fig. 27. Trees in keeping.] firs, which, shooting up on either 
side of the old bridge, occupy the foreground. In the 
second (Fig. 30), there is evidently something discordant 
in the scene which strikes the spectator at first sight ; this 
is the misplaced introduction of the large willows, which 
belong to a scene very different 
in character. Imagine a removal 
of the surrounding hills, and let 
the rapid stream spread out into a 
smooth peaceful lake with gradu- 
ally retiring shores, and the blue summits in the distance 
and then the willows will harmonize admirably. 
Having now described the peculiar characteristics of 
these different classes of round-headed, spiry-topped 
oblong, and drooping trees, we should consider the proper 
[Fig. 28. Trees out of keeping.] 
* Forest Scenery, p. 133. 
