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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the plantation not only prevents the expan-
sion of the branches, but interferes with the
life of the modern tree, as it is seldom found
in a healthy state after sixty or seventy years’
4 growth. This cause is not, however, of uni-
versal application, as very different results
are observable under apparently similar cir-
cumstances. A considerable quantity of
Scotch firs were lately cut out of the belt at
Addington Park, not one of which had the
smallest approximation to the old character ;
while there are now standing, in the belt at
Drayton Manor, in Staffordshire, numerous
specimens, which, though from a similar pres-
sure they have lost their lateral branches, yet
manifest, in the surface and colour of the
bole, as well as in the rich luxuriance of the
foliage, the true character of the Scotch fir. I
have also observed the same circumstance in
Kent, particularly in the neighbourhood of
Tonbridge. The specimen here given was
drawn from a tree of large dimensions, and
in perfect health, though it must be of very
considerable age; it stands amongst many
others near the church at Sundridge.
A gentleman having mentioned to me
some remarkable Scotch firs that had been

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