. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice 105 shade. Now it is obvious that, in newly formed places, such a redundance of trees will generally remain from former hedge-rows that there can seldom be occasion to increase the number of single trees, though it will often be advisable to combine them into proper groups. It is a mistaken idea, scarcely worthy of notice, that the beauty of a group ot trees consists in odd numbers, such as five, seven, or nine; a conceit which I have known to be seriously asserted. I should rather pro- nounce that no group of trees ca
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory and Practice 105 shade. Now it is obvious that, in newly formed places, such a redundance of trees will generally remain from former hedge-rows that there can seldom be occasion to increase the number of single trees, though it will often be advisable to combine them into proper groups. It is a mistaken idea, scarcely worthy of notice, that the beauty of a group ot trees consists in odd numbers, such as five, seven, or nine; a conceit which I have known to be seriously asserted. I should rather pro- nounce that no group of trees can be natural in which the plants are studiously placed at equal distances, how-. Fig. 13. Artificial Scenery. ever irregular in their forms. Those pleasing combina- tions of trees which weadmire in forest scenery will often be found to consist of forked trees, or at least of trees placed so near each other that the branches intermix, and by a natural effort of vegetation the stems of the trees themselvesare forced from thatperpendicular direc- tion which is always observable in trees planted at regular distances from each other. No groups will therefore appear natural unless two or more trees are planted very near each other," whilst the perfection of a group consists. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818; Nolen, John, 1869-1937; American Society of Landscape Architects. Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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