have shot up into a stem before their branches began.

Some are of a dark green, as the horse-chestnut, and the yew; s light green, as the lime and the laurel; some of a green tinged rown, as the Virginian cedar; some of a green tinged with white, rbele, and the sage tree; and some of a green tinged with yellow shen-leaved maple, and the Chinese arbor vitae. The variegated p lso are generally entitled to be classed with the white, or the y y the strong tincture of the one or the other of those colours on

eaves.

Other considerations concerning colours will soon be suggested; resent enquiry is only into great fixed distinctions: those in th nd the greens of trees and shrubs have been mentioned; there are s great and as important in their growths; but they are too obvio eserve mentioning. Every gradation, from the most humble to the Lofty, has, in certain situations, particular effects: it is unned so divide them into stages.

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One principal use in settling these characteristic disti Is to point out the stores whence varieties may at all times be re drawn, and the causes by which sometimes inconstistencies may be a Trees which differ but in one of these circumstances, wheth shape, of green, of of growth, though they agree in every other, a sufficiently distinguished for the purpose of variety: if they dif two or three they become contrasts; if in all, they are opposites, seldom groupe well together. But there are intermediate degrees, the most distant may be reconciled: the upright branches of the al mix very ill with the falling boughs of the weeping willow; but an val filled with other trees, in figure between the two extremes, I them at least not unsightly in the same plantation. Those, Those, on the trary, which are of one character, and are distinguished only as t acteristic mark, is strongly or faintly impressed upon them, as a beach and a birch, an acacia and a larch, all pendant, though in d degrees, form a beautiful mass, in which unity is preserved withou ness; and still finer groupes may often be produced by greater dev from uniformity into contrast.

Occasions to shew the effects, of particular shapes in certain s will hereafter so frequently occur, that a further illustration of now would be needless. But there are besides, sometimes in trees, monly in shrubs, still more minute varieties, in the turn of the b in the form and the size of the foliage, which generally catch, a deserve attention. Even the texture of the leaves frequently occa many different appearances; some have a stiffness, some an agility which they are more or less proper for several purposes: on many i very useful at times to enliven, at other times too glittering for of the plantation. But all these inferior varieties are below our in the consideration of great effects: they are of consequence onl the plantation is near to the sight; where it skirts a home scene, borders the side of a walk: and in a shrubbery, which in its nature little, both in style and in extent, they should be anxiously sou