. 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 . their form, however beautiful it may be in itself, alwaysmore or less injures the landscape. In Gilpins Forest Scenery, he remarksthat the weeping
. 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 . their form, however beautiful it may be in itself, alwaysmore or less injures the landscape. In Gilpins Forest Scenery, he remarksthat the weeping willow is a very picturesque tree, and a perfect contrastto the Lombardy poplar. The light airy spray of the poplar, he adds, 1306. rises perpendicularly : that of the weeping willow is pendent. The shape ofits leaf is conformable to the pensile character of the tree; and its spray,which is lighter than that of the poplar, is more easily put in motion by abreath of air. The weeping w illow, however, is not adapted to sublimesubjects. We wish it not to screen the broken buttresses and Gothic windowsof an abbey, or to overshadow the battlements of a ruined castle. Theseoffices it resigns to the oak, whose dignity can support them. The weepingwillow seeks an humbler scene; some romantic footpath bridge, which ithalf conceals, or some glassy pond, over w liich it hangs its streaming folitige,— CHAP. cirr. S-ALICA^CEJE. 151,
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