plantation, is in delicacy of taste, and fertility of invention, ior to that at Esher.

Both were early essays in the modern art of gardening; and, pe: from an eagerness to shew the effect, the trees in both were place near together: though they are still far short of their growth, t run up into poles, and the groves are already past their prime; by temptation to plant for such a purpose no longer exists, now that perience has justified the experiment. If, however, we still have patience to wait, it is possible to secure both a present and a f effect, by fixing first on a disposition which will be beautiful v trees are large, and then intermingling another which is agreeabl they are small. These occasional trees are hereafter to be taken and must be removed in time, before they become prejudicial to the others.

The consequence of variety in the disposition, is variety in t and shade of the grove; which may be improved by the choice of the Some are impenetrable to the fiercest Sun-bcam; others let in here there a ray between the large masses of their foliage; and others both of boughs and of leaves, only chequer the ground. Lvery dect light and shade, from a glare to obscurity, may be managed, partly the number, and partly by the texture of the trees. Differences in the manner of their growths have also corredponding effects; th a closeness under those whose branches descend low, and spread wid space and liberty where the arch above is high; and frequent trans from the one to the other are very pleasing. These still are not the varieties of which the interior of a grove is capable: trees whose branches nearly reach the ground, being each a sort of thic) are inconsistent with an open plantation: but though some of the acteristic distinctions are thereby excluded, other varieties more succeed in their place; for the freedom of passage throughout brin every tree in its turn near to the eye, and subjects even differe in foliage to observation. These, slight as they may seen, are a able when they occur: it is true they are not regretted when want: but a defect of ornament is not necessarily a blemish.

XXII. It has been already observed that clumps differ only in from a wood, if they are close; or from a grove, if they are open: are small woods, and small groves, governed by the same principles the larger, after allowances made for their dimensions. But besid properties they may have in common with woods or with groves, they others peculiar to themselves, which require examination.

They are either independent or relative; when independent, the beauty, as single objects, is solely to be attended to; when rela the beauty of the individuals must be sacrificed to the effect of whole, which is the greater consideration.

The least clump that can be, is of two trees; and the best eff can have is, that their heads united should appear one large tree therefore of different species, or seven or eight of such shapes not easily join, can hardly be a beautiful groupe, especially if a tendency to a circular form. Such clumps of fire, though very