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The method of thinning trees, which
(under the idea of improvement) has been
adopted by layers out of ground, perfedtly
correfponds with their method of planting;
for in both cafes .they totally negledt what
(in the general fenfe of the word) may be
called pifturefque effedts. Trees of re-
markable fize, indeed, ufually efcape; but
it is not fufficient to attend to the giant
fons of the forefi:; often the iofs of a few
trees, nay of a fingle tree of middling fize,
is of infinite confsquence to the general
effiedl: of the place, by making an irrepara-
ble breach in the outline of a principal
wood; often fome of the mofl beautiful
groups owe the playful variety of their
form, and their happy connefition with other
groups, to fome apparently infignificant,
and (to common obfervers) even ugly trees*.
* Vide Sir Joflhua Reynolds’s Notes to Mafon’s Du
Frefnoy, page 89.
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The method of thinning trees, which
(under the idea of improvement) has been
adopted by layers out of ground, perfedtly
correfponds with their method of planting;
for in both cafes .they totally negledt what
(in the general fenfe of the word) may be
called pifturefque effedts. Trees of re-
markable fize, indeed, ufually efcape; but
it is not fufficient to attend to the giant
fons of the forefi:; often the iofs of a few
trees, nay of a fingle tree of middling fize,
is of infinite confsquence to the general
effiedl: of the place, by making an irrepara-
ble breach in the outline of a principal
wood; often fome of the mofl beautiful
groups owe the playful variety of their
form, and their happy connefition with other
groups, to fome apparently infignificant,
and (to common obfervers) even ugly trees*.
* Vide Sir Joflhua Reynolds’s Notes to Mafon’s Du
Frefnoy, page 89.
To