hillock evidently thrown up on purpose to be crowned with a clump, is artificial to a degree of disgust: some of the trees should therefore be planted on the sides, to take off that appearance. The sale expedient may be applied to clumps placed on the brow of a hill, to interrupt its sameness: they will have less ostentation of design, if they re in part carried down either declivity. The objection already rude to planting many along such a brow, is on the same principle: a single clump is less suspected of art; if it be an open one, there can be no finer situation for it, than just at the point of an abrupt ill, or on a promontory into a lake or a river. It is in either a beautiful terination, distinct by its position, and enlivened by an expanse of sky or of water, about and beyond it. Cuch advantages ny ballance little defects in its form; but they ale lost if other clumps are planted near it: art then intrudes, and the whole is displeasing.

XCXIV. But though a multiplicity of clumps, when each is an independant object, seldom seems natural; yet a nu..ber of then may, without any appearance of art, be admitted into the sane scene, if they bear a relation to each other: if by their succession they diversify a continuod outline of wood; if between them they form beautiful lades; if all together they cast an ex ensive lawn into an agreeable shape, the effect prevents any scrutiny into the neans of producing it. ut when the reliance on that effect is so reat, every other consideration must sive way to the beauty of the whole. The figure of the clade, of the lawn, or of the wood, are principally to be attended to: the finest clumps, if they do not fall easily into the great lines, are blemishes: their connections, theri contrasts, are more important than their forms.

A line of clumps, if the intervels be closed by others beyond then, hes the appearance of a wood, or of a grove; and in one respect the nonblance has an advantage over the reality. In different points or view, the relations between the clumps are changed; and a variety of fors is produced, which no continued wood or grove, howev. r broken, can furnish. These forms cannot all be equally agreeable; and too anxious a solicitude to make then every where pleasing, Lay, perhaps, prevent their being ever beautiful. The effect must ofter be left to chance; but it should be studiously consulted fro.. a few principal points of view; and it is easy to make any recess, any prominence, any fiture in the outline, by clure thus advancing before, or retiring behind one another.

But amidst all the advantages attendant on t is species of plantation it is often exceptionable when co. ended from a neighbourin oinence; clumps below the eye lose so. e of their principal beauties; ni a number of them betray the art of which they are always liable to be 81spected: they compose no surface of wood; and all effects arising fra. the relations between then are entirely lost. prospect spotted with any clumps can hardly be great: unless they are so distinct as to be o'jects or so distant as to unite into ne nacs, they are seldon an inylovint of a view.

The proper situations for single trees are frequently the Jane as for clu ps; the choice will often be deter ined, colely by the considThe introduction of foreign trees and plans, which we owe princip lly to Archibald duke of Argyle, contributed essentially to the richness of The mixture of various colouring so peculiar to our modern landskip.