. An encyclopædia of gardening; . degrees of magnitude, and of different forms and relative positions. Ifwe look on the upper surface of a plantation of each class, we shall find the differenceequally great. 6864. The situations where sjnry-topttrees have most effect is among rocks,and in very irregular surfaces ; andespecially on the steep sides of highmountains {jig- 652.), where theirforms, and the direction of theirgrowth, seem to harmonise with theirpointed rocky summits. Fir and pineforests are dull, gloomy, and monoto-nous in the sandy plains of Poland andRussia, but among the broken ro
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . degrees of magnitude, and of different forms and relative positions. Ifwe look on the upper surface of a plantation of each class, we shall find the differenceequally great. 6864. The situations where sjnry-topttrees have most effect is among rocks,and in very irregular surfaces ; andespecially on the steep sides of highmountains {jig- 652.), where theirforms, and the direction of theirgrowth, seem to harmonise with theirpointed rocky summits. Fir and pineforests are dull, gloomy, and monoto-nous in the sandy plains of Poland andRussia, but among the broken rocks,craggy precipices, and otherwise end-lessly varied surfaces of Sweden andNorway, they are full of variety. Intame countries they present mostvariety when planted so thin as barelyto touch each other, and when a num-ber of them are kept low, where thewhole are of different ages {jig. 653.) But the variety produced, even by this disposition,is still far short of what would be effected by a similar arrangement of round or oval-.
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