eration of proportion, between the object, and the spot it is intended to occupy;, and if the desired effect can be attained by a single tree, the simplicity of the means recommends it. Sometimes it will be preferred merely for variety; and may be used to mark one point in a scone in which two or three points are already distinguished by clumps. It may Occasionally be applied to most of the purposes for which clumps are used; may be an independant object; may interrupt a continuod line, or decorate an extent of space: there is but o e effect resulting from clumps which may not to a certain degree be produced by in, lo troos, a number of them will never unite into one large mass; but more distant relations may be observed between them. Scattered about a lawn, they cast it into an agreeable shape; and to produce that shape, each rust be placed with an attention to the rest; they may stand in particular directions, and collectively form agreeable figures; or between several straggling trees little lades nay open, full of valisty and beauty. The lines they trace are fainter than those which larger plantations describe but then their forms are their own; they are therefore absolutely free from all appearance of art; any disposition of them, if it be but irregular, is sure to be natural.

The situations of single trees is the first consideration; and differences in the distances between then their greatest variety. in slape, they admit of no choice but that w ich their species affords; creatness often, beauty often, sometimes mere solidity, and now and then peculiarity alone, recon ends them. Their situations will also frequently determine the species: if they are placed before a continued line of wood, only to break it, they should cormonly be similar to the trees in that wood; they will else lose their connexion, and not affect the outline which they are intended to vary; but if they are designed to be independent objects, they are as such more discernible when distinguished both in their shapes and their greens from any plantations about them. After all, the choice, especially in large scenes, is Luc': confined to the trees on the spot; young clumps from the first have some, and soon produce a considerable effect; but a young single tree for any years has none at all; and it is often more judicious to preserve one already crowing, though not exactly such as Light be wished, either in itself, or in its situation, than to plant in its stoad anoth r, which may be a finer object, and better placed, in a distant futurity.