. The art of landscape gardening . a sameness ; and while it is pleased withsuccession and variety, it is offended by sudden contrast,which destroys the unity of composition. There is a small clump at b [Plate xii], which is ofgreat use in breaking the outline of the wood beyondit; and there is a dell or scar in the ground at c thatmay also be planted for the like purpose. It is a verycommon expedient to mend an outline by adding newplantation in the front of an old one ; but although theimprover may plant large woods with a view to futureages, yet something appears due to the present day. Ifb
. The art of landscape gardening . a sameness ; and while it is pleased withsuccession and variety, it is offended by sudden contrast,which destroys the unity of composition. There is a small clump at b [Plate xii], which is ofgreat use in breaking the outline of the wood beyondit; and there is a dell or scar in the ground at c thatmay also be planted for the like purpose. It is a verycommon expedient to mend an outline by adding newplantation in the front of an old one ; but although theimprover may plant large woods with a view to futureages, yet something appears due to the present day. Ifby cutting down a few trees in the front of a large woodthe shape of its outline may immediately be improvedin a better manner than can be expected from a solitaryclump a century hence, it is surely a more rational sys-tem of improvement than so long to endure a patch,surrounded by an unsightly fence, in the distant hope ofeffects which the life of man is too short to realise. There is a part of the wood at d so narrow as to admit. Theory AND Practice 119 the light between the stems of the trees ; this naturallysuggests the idea of adding new plantation. But thehorizon is already uniformly bounded by wood, andthe mind is apt to affix the idea of such boundarybeing the limit of the park as strongly as if the paleitself were visible; on the contrary, the ground fallingbeyond this part and a range of wood sweeping over thebrow of the hill, it is better to clear away some of thetrees, to increase the apparent extent of lawn. Insteadof destroying the continuity of wood, this will increaseits quantity ; because the tops of the trees being partlyseen over the opening, the imagination will extend thelawn beyond its actual boundary, and represent it assurrounded by the same chain of woods. I have often heard it asserted, as a general maxim ingardeningjthathillsshould be planted and valleys clearedof wood. This idea perhaps originated and ought onlyto be implicitly followed in a flat or t
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