Gilpin, William S.: Practical hints upon landscape gardening: with some remarks on domestic architecture, as connected with scenery (London: Cadell [u.a.], 1835)

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a good effect; and, in some cases, are most
essentially useful. There is, I conceive,
scarcely any tree that may not be advanta-
geously used in the various combinations of
form and colour: and, as immediately con-
nected with buildings, I must say that the
Lombardy poplar appears to me to be un-
justly condemned; inasmuch as we have no
tree that so well supplies the place of the
cypress, in contrasting the horizontal lines
of masonry, and giving occasional variety to
the outline of the group. Portman Square
affords an example in point: the horizontal
lines of the houses on each side beino; broken
and contrasted by the Lombardy poplars in
the plantations; while the plantations them-
selves derive consequence and variety from
the pointed form and superior height of the
poplars: as, therefore, we cannot command
the cypress of Italian growth, we find the
Lombardy poplar its best representative.
In my former edition of these Hints I
deemed it superfluous to remonstrate against
clipping the evergreens into formal shapes,
conceiving it to be an obsolete barbarism.
I was lately, however, painfully convinced of
my error by finding the shrubs in the flower-
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