. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . xcept that of a violent storm. When the blastcontinues for some time, when the black heavens are in unison with it, andhelp to tell the story, an
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . xcept that of a violent storm. When the blastcontinues for some time, when the black heavens are in unison with it, andhelp to tell the story, an oak straining in the wind is an object of picturesquebeauty; but when the gentle breeze, pressing upon the quivering poplar,bends it only in easy motion, while a serene Sky indicates tlie heavens to beat peace, there is nothing to act in concert with the motion of the tree: itseems to have taken its form from the influence of a sea air, or some othermalign impression; and, exhibiting an unnatural appearance, disgusts. Onething more I should mention with regard to the Italian poplar; which is, that,although it sometimes has a good eflect when standing singly, it generally has abetter when two or three are planted in a clump. {Forest Sceniry, ) The Lombartly poplar. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder oliservcs, though extremelyfatiguing to the eye when it lines the road for many miles, as it does very CHAP. SALICA^CEiE, POPLLUS. 1669. generally in France, and occasion;illy in Italy, is often a very beautiful andnatural accompaniment to buildings. We have obsened, he says, a verywhimsical effect produced by tlie long rows of these poplars in France, whenseen crowning a distant elevation, where they have had to us all the appear-ance of an army drawn up; and we remarked that this whimsical deceptionvery frequently occurred. (Lmiders Gilpin, vol. i. p. 116.) Mr. Sang considersthe Lombardy poplar as a very ugly tree; a circumstance which we arerather surprised at in so enli
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