are seldom pleasing; they do not compose one nass, but afe only a confused number of pinnacles. The confusion is however evoided, by placing them in succession, not in clusters; and a clump of such trees is therefore more acroeable when it is extended rather in length than in breadth.

Three tres together must for either a right line, or a trinele: to disguise the regularity, the distances should be very different. Distinctions in their shaes contribute also to the same end; and variety in their growths still more. When a strait line consists of two trees nearly similar, and of a third much lower than they are, the even direction in which they stand is hardly discernible.

If humbler growths at the extremity can disconpose the strictest regularity, the use of it is thereby recomended on other occasions. It is indeed the variety poculiarly proper for clumps: every apparent artifice affecting the objects of nature, discusts; end clumps are such distinguished objects, so liable to the suspicion of having been left or placed on purpose to be so distinguished, that to divert the attention from these sumptons of art, irregularity in the composition is more inportant to them than to a wood or to a grove; being also less extensive they do not admit so much variety of outline: but variety of growths is most observable in a small compass; and the several gradations often may be cast into beautiful figures.

The extent and the outline of a wood or a rove encore the attention More than the extremities; but in clumps these last are of the ort consequence: they determine the form of the whole; and both of them are generally in sight: great care should therefore be taken to take thom agreeable and different. The case with which they may be compared torbids all similarity between then: for every appearance of equility sucCosts an idea of art; and therefore a clump as broad as it is lon, Jon3 less the work of nature than one which stretches into length

Another peculiarity of clumps, is the facility with which toy admit a mixture of trees, and of shrubs; of wood, and of grove; in short, of every species of plantation. None are more beautiful than those which are so composed. nch compositions are, however, ore proper in conpact them in straggling clumps: they are .ost agreeable when they to on) Lass: in the transitions from very lofty to very ble growths, fron thicket to open plantations, be frequent and sudden, the disorder is nore suited to rude than to elegant scones.

XXIII. The occasions on which independent clums may be appliol, are any, They are often desirable as beautiful objects in the sloven; they are sometines necessary to break an xtost of law, or a continued line, whether of round or of plantation; but on all occasions a joelons of art constantly attends then, which i regul rity in their figure will not always alone remove. Though olovations show thou to advantage, y ta