to have shot up into a stem before their branches began.

Some are of a dark green, as the horse-chestnut, and the yew; some of a light green, as the lime and the laurel; sone or a creen tinged with brown, as the Virginian cedar; some of a creen tinged wit: white, as the arbele, and the sage tree; and so le of a green tinged with yellow, as the ashen-leaved maple, and the Chinese arbor vitae. The variegated plants also are generally entitled to be classed with the white, or the yellow, by the strong tincture of the one or the other of those colours on their leaves.

Other considerations concerning colours will soon be succosted; the present enquiry is only into great fixed distinctions: those in the shapes and the greens of trees and shrubs have been mentioned; there are others as great and as important in their growths; but they are too obvious to deserve mentioning. Every cradation, from the most humble to the most lofty, has, in certain situations, particular effects: it is unnecessary to divide them into stages.

XIII. One principal use in settling these characteristic distinctions is to point out the stores whence varieties may at all times be readily drawn, and the causes by which sometimes inconsistencies may be accounted for. Trees which differ but in one of these circumstances, whether of shape, of green, of of growth, though they agree in every other, are sufficiently distinguished for the purpose of variety: if they differ in two or three they become contrasts; if in all, they are opposites, and seldom groupe well together. But there are intermediate degreos, by which the most distant may be reconciled: the upright branches of the almond mix very ill with the falling boughs of the weeping willow; but an interval filled with other trees, in figure between the two extremes, renders them at least not unsightly in the same plantation. Those, on the contrary, which are of one character, and are distinguished only as the characteristic mark, is strongly or faintly impressed upon them, as a young beach and a birch, an acacia and a larch, all pendant, though in differont degrees, form a beautiful mass, in which unity is proserved without saneness; and still finer groupes may often be produced by creator deviations from uniformity into contrast.

Occasions to show the effects of particular shapes in certain situations will hereafter so frequently occur, that a further illustration of them now would be needless. But there are besides, sometimes in trees, and comonly in shrubs, still more minute varieties, in the turn of the branches in the form and the size of the foliage, which generally catch, an often deserve attention. Even the texture of the leaves frequently occasions any different appearances; some have a stiffness, some an agility, by which they are more or less proper for several purposes: on many is a class, very useful at times to enliven, at other times too glittering for the hue of the plantation. But all these inferior varieties are below our notice In the consideration of great effects: they are of consequence only where the plantation is near to the sight; where it skirts a home scone, or orders the side of a walk: and in a shrubbery, which in its nature is little, both in style and in extent, they should be anxiously sought for.