. An encyclopædia of gardening; . s of a garden include. The caution, therefore, may not be uselesswithin these narrow bounds; but nature proceeds still farther, beyond the utmost vergeto which art can follow, and, in scenes licentiously wild, not content with contrast, forceseven contradictions to unite. The grotesque, discordant shapes which are often thereconfusedly tumbled together, might sufiiciently justify the remark. But the capricedoes not stop here; to mix with such shapes a form perfectly regular, is still more extra-vagant ; and yet the effect is sometimes so wonderful, that we can
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . s of a garden include. The caution, therefore, may not be uselesswithin these narrow bounds; but nature proceeds still farther, beyond the utmost vergeto which art can follow, and, in scenes licentiously wild, not content with contrast, forceseven contradictions to unite. The grotesque, discordant shapes which are often thereconfusedly tumbled together, might sufiiciently justify the remark. But the capricedoes not stop here; to mix with such shapes a form perfectly regular, is still more extra-vagant ; and yet the effect is sometimes so wonderful, that we cannot wish the extrava-gance corrected. [Obs. on Mod. Gard. p. 23.) Sect. II. Of operating with Wood. 7203, Wood produces almost all the grand effects in both styles of improvement;for trees, whether in scattered forests, thickets, or groups, or in compact geome-tric squares, avenues, or rows, constitute the greatest charm of every country. Treesimprove the most varied outlines of buildings [Jig. 688.), and without them the grounds. of a residence {Jig 689.) would often be nothing more than an unmeaning profusion ofwinding roads or walks. A tree in itself is, indeed, the noblest object of inani-mate nature; combines every species of beauty, from its sublime effect as a whole, tothe individual beauty of its leaves ; exhibits that majestic uniformity and infinitevariety which constitute the essence of relative beauty; and the natural expressionsof individual species are as various as are their forms and magnitude, their utilityto man, and the situations, soils, climates, and other general and accidental circum-stances of which they are indications. 7204. The effect or expression of trees, individually and in masses, has been entered onat length in the preceding book; we shall here, therefore, confine ourselves to a fewgeneral observations on the effect of planting in the geometric and modem manners. 7205. In planting in the geometric style, the first consideration is the nature of
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