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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
defect, my friend here, or rather his predecessors, have formerly taken 
good care that such a fault should not generally prevail; because in 
every plantation there is abundance of the native holly, hawthorn, 
and juniper, which adds greatly to the massive beauty and intricacy, as 
well of the interior as of the margins of the groups and woods. The 
thicker masses of wood are never entirely insulated, but appear to 
be connected by intermediate trees and shrubs, which creep out 
between. 
Nor do the various plantations in this park fall under the ban of 
those same critics who have derided with so much severity the Brown- 
ists’ notions of placing a round clump of firs or other trees on the top 
of every hill or little eminence ; and sometimes scattering them in¬ 
discriminately over the whole face of a large domain, with much 
greater regularity than good taste wishes to witness. The different 
masses of wood have been placed, as already noticed, with special 
reference to the views from the house, if within range of the eye ; and 
in the back grounds they have been arranged with reference, to the 
green rides which traverse over the outskirts of the park, and to afford 
the best views of the surrounding country; and with reference, 
also, to the nature and acclivity of the ground so occupied. On the 
confines of the park, as well as on seme portions in the interior, are 
considerable breadths of coppice or underwood, through which the 
green rides are led. The underwoods are fenced from cattle, and are 
not only profitable, but indispensable appendages as a cover for game, 
and for furnishing a great variety of useful stuff for the farm, garden, 
and mansion-house. 
The predominating sorts of timber trees in the park are oak, elm, 
and beech; some magnificent specimens of all these are met with, and 
particularly in the neighbourhood of the house, both within and with¬ 
out the pleasure ground. Some of these stand singly, and some are 
grouped with consummate skill; a skill which must have been exer¬ 
cised at a far distant date. But even if these specimens are only the 
remains of an ancient wood, which might have covered this spot, their 
preservation is highly creditable to the fine taste of the then proprietor. 
For it is those trees which, intermingling over-head, dank the principal 
vistas which lead the eye down into the lower grounds, and up the 
opposite brows of the park, thereby producing what landscape-painters 
are so much delighted to depict, viz. a shady and strongly marked 
foreground , and a distant and luminous off.scape. 
Among the other kinds of forest trees, the Spanish, or sweet chest¬ 
nut is plentiful; large masses of them are planted together. Single 
trees of the horse chestnut are also scattered about. The formal, and 
