. The art of landscape gardening. characters, and heights, yet the browsing-line is the samein all, and furnishes a natural scale by which we at oncedecide on their relative heights at various distances. Let us suppose the same trees pruned or trimmed byman [as in Fig. 16], and not by cattle, and this scale willbe destroyed: thus, a full grown oak may be made tolook like an orchard-tree, or by encouraging the underbranches to grow lower than the usual standard, a thorn. or a crab-tree may be mistaken for an oak, at a dis-tance. Single trees,or open groups, areobjects of great beautywhen scatte
. The art of landscape gardening. characters, and heights, yet the browsing-line is the samein all, and furnishes a natural scale by which we at oncedecide on their relative heights at various distances. Let us suppose the same trees pruned or trimmed byman [as in Fig. 16], and not by cattle, and this scale willbe destroyed: thus, a full grown oak may be made tolook like an orchard-tree, or by encouraging the underbranches to grow lower than the usual standard, a thorn. or a crab-tree may be mistaken for an oak, at a dis-tance. Single trees,or open groups, areobjects of great beautywhen scattered on the side of a steep hill, because theymay be made to mark the degree of its declivity, andthe shadows of the trees are very conspicuous ; but on Theory and Practice III a plain the shadows are little seen, and therefore singletrees are of less use. I am now to speak of plantations for future, ratherthan for immediate effect, and instead of mentioninglarge tracts of land which have been planted under mydirections, where a naked or a barren country has beenclothed without difficulty or contrivance, I shall ratherinstance a subject requiring peculiar management, es-pecially as, from its vicinity to a highroad, I cannotperhaps produce a better example than the followingextract furnishes : Coombe Lodge, seen from the turnpike road,does notat present give a favourable impression ; for though theview from the house, consisting of the opposite banksof Basildon, i
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