The noblest wood is not indeed disfigured by them; and when a wood having served as a great object to one spot, becomes in another the edge of a walk, little circumstances, varying with ceaseless change along the outline, will then be attended to; but wherever these minute varieties are fitting, the grossest taste will feel the propriety, and the most cursory observation will suggest the distinctions; a detail of all would be endless; nor can they be reduced into classes. To range the shrubs and small trees so that they may mutually set off the beauties and conceal the blemishes, of each other; to aim at no effects which depend on a nicety for their success, and which the soil, the exposure, or the season of the day may destroy; to attend more to the groupes than to the individuals; and to consider the whole as a plantation, not as a collection of plants, are the best general rules which ban be given concerning them.

XIV. The different tints of greens may seen at first sight to be rather minute varieties than characteristic distinctions; but upon experience it will be found, that from small beginnings they lead to material consequences; that they are more important on the broad expanse, than along the narrow outline of a wood; and that by their union, or their contrast, they produce effects not to be disregarded in scenes of extent and of grandeur.

A hanging wood in autumn is enriced with colours, whose beauty cheers the approaches of the inclement season they forebode: but when the trees droop, while the verdure as yet only begins to fade, they are no more than stronger tints of those colours with which the greens in their vigour are shaded; and which now are succeeded by a paler white, a brighter yellow, or a darker brown. The effects are not different; they are only more faintly impressed at one time than another; but when they are strongest, they are most observable. The fall of the leaf, therefore, is the time to learn the species, the order, and the proportion of tints, which blended, will form beautiful masses; and, on the other hand, to distinguish those which are incimpatible near together.

The peculiar beauty of the tints of red cannot then escape observation and the want of them throughout the summer months must be regretted; but that want, though it cannot perfectly, may partially, be supplied; for plants have a permanent and an accidental colour. he per anent is always some shade of green; but any other may be the accidental colour; am there is none which so any circumstances concur to produce as a red. It is assumed in succession by the bud, the blossom, the berry, the bark and the leaf. Sometimes it profusely overspreads; at other times it dimly tinges the plant; and a redish green is generally the hue of t ose plants on which it lasts long, or frequently returns.

Admitting this, at least for many months in the year, among the characteristic distinctions, a large piece of red creen, with a narrow edging of drak green along the further side of it, and beyond that a piece of light green still larger than the first, will be found to compose a beautiful mass. Another, not less beautiful, is a yellow green nearest to the yee, beyond that a light green, then a brown green, and lastly a dark green. The dark green must be the largest, the light groen the next in extent, and the yellow green the least of all.