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Contrasts, again, are often admissible in woody scenery ; 
and we would not wish to lose many of our most superb 
trees, because they could not be introduced in particular 
portions of landscape. Contrasts in trees may be so 
violent as to be displeasing ; as in the example of the 
groups of the three trees, the willow, poplar, and oak : 
or they may be such as to produce spirited and pleasing 
effects. This must be effected by planting the different 
divisions of trees, first, in small leading groups, and then 
by effecting a union between the groups of different 
character, by intermingling those of the nearest similarity 
into and near the groups : in this way, by easy transitions 
from the drooping to the round-headed, and from these to 
the tapering trees, the whole of the foliage and forms 
harmonize well. 
| Fig. 29. Example in grouping.] 
“ Trees,” observes Mr. Whately, in his elegant treatise 
on this subject, “ which differ in but one of these 
circumstances, of shape, green, or growth, though they 
agree in every other, are sufficiently distinguished for the 
Bays, in speaking of the dark Scotch fir, “ with regard to color in general, 1 
/hink I speak the language of painting, when I assert that the picturesque eye 
makes little distinction in this matter. It has no attachment to one color in 
preference to another, but considers the beauty of all coloring as resulting, not 
from the colors themselves, but almost entirely from their harmony with other 
colors in their neighborhood. So that as the Scotch fir tree is combined or 
stationed, it forms a beautiful umbrage or a murky spot.” 
