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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LANDSCAPE GARDENING.

near Nottingham, composed of noble shafts
of beech : a splendid specimen of the grand
may be seen at Killymoon, before mentioned,
where a group of sycamore of gigantic size,
standing on a jutting knoll, makes the fore-
ground of a most romantic composition,
formed by the junction of two brawling
streams, struggling together in a rude rocky
channel, overhung by high woody banks.
The catches of light playing on the agitated
water, contrasted with the deep sombre tone
of the surrounding scenery, reminds you of
the happiest effort of Ruysdale’s pencil.
In planting groups of trees, the number
should not be the same in each group ; a
thorn or two, occasionally introduced, gives
variety to the character. When the group is
composed of three trees, two of them, in my
opinion, ought to be of one kind, as three
distinct ones can hardly be supposed the re-
sult of natural combination, at which all
planting should aim. For this reason, I
should always plant two or more trees of one
kind on those points of plantation, which are
hereafter to be separated as a group. With
the same view of imitating the accident of
Nature, trees should not be set at equal dis-