. The art of landscape gardening. y of its outline, yet thegeneral character of shade must not be destroyed. In like manner the too great expanse of light ona lawn must be broken and diversified by occasionalshadow, but if too many trees be introduced for thispurpose, the effect becomes frittered, and the eye isoffended by a deficiency of composition, or, as thepainter would express it, of a due breadth of light and Theory and Practice 105 shade. Now it is obvious that, in newly formed places,such a redundance of trees will generally remain fromformer hedge-rows that there can seldom be occasi
. The art of landscape gardening. y of its outline, yet thegeneral character of shade must not be destroyed. In like manner the too great expanse of light ona lawn must be broken and diversified by occasionalshadow, but if too many trees be introduced for thispurpose, the effect becomes frittered, and the eye isoffended by a deficiency of composition, or, as thepainter would express it, of a due breadth of light and Theory and Practice 105 shade. Now it is obvious that, in newly formed places,such a redundance of trees will generally remain fromformer hedge-rows that there can seldom be occasionto increase the number of single trees, though it willoften be advisable to combine them into proper is a mistaken idea, scarcely worthy of notice, thatthe beauty of a group of trees consists in odd numbers,such as five, seven, or nine; a conceit which 1 haveknown to be seriously asserted. I should rather pro-nounce that no group of trees can be natural in whichthe plants are studiously placed at equal distances, how-. 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
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