. The art of landscape gardening. Artificial Scenery. ever irregular in their forms. Those pleasing combina-tions of trees which we admire in forest scenery will oftenbe found to consist of forked trees, or at least of treesplaced so near each other that the branches intermix,and by a natural effort of vegetation the stems of thetrees themselvesare forced from thatperpendicular direc-tion which is always observable in trees planted at regulardistances from each other. No groups will thereforeappear natural unless two or more trees are planted verynear each other, whilst the perfection of a gro
. The art of landscape gardening. Artificial Scenery. ever irregular in their forms. Those pleasing combina-tions of trees which we admire in forest scenery will oftenbe found to consist of forked trees, or at least of treesplaced so near each other that the branches intermix,and by a natural effort of vegetation the stems of thetrees themselvesare forced from thatperpendicular direc-tion which is always observable in trees planted at regulardistances from each other. No groups will thereforeappear natural unless two or more trees are planted verynear each other, whilst the perfection of a group consists io6 The Art of Landscape Gardenii in the combination of trees of different age, size, andcharacter. The two sketches annexed exemplify this remark ;the first [Fig. 13] represents a few young trees protected. Fig. 14. Natural Scenery. by cradles, and though some of them appear nearer to-gether than others, it arises from their being seen in per-spective, for I suppose them to be planted (as they usuallyare) at nearly equal distances. In the same landscape Ihave supposed the same trees grown to a considerablesize, but from their equi-distance the stems are all parallelto each other, and not like the group in Fig. 14, wherebeing planted much nearer, the trees naturally recedefrom each other. A few low bushes or thorns producethe kind of group in the second sketch [Fig. 14], con-sisting of trees and bushes of various growth. It may beobserved that the single tree, and every part of the firstsketch, is evidently artificial, and that the second one isnatural, and like the groups in a forest. Another source of variety may be produced by suchopaque masses of spinous plants as protect themselvesfrom cattle; thus stems of trees seen against lawn or water Theory and Practice 107 are comparatively da
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