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

Both were carly essays in the modern art of gardening; unt, porhaps from an eagerness to show the effect, the tres in both were placed too near together: though they are still far short of their growth, they are run up into poles, and the groves are already pust their prize; but the temptation to plant for such a purpose no longer exists, now that experience has justified the experient. If, however, we still have not patience to wait, it is possible to secure bot. & presont and a fubue effect, by fixing first on a disposition which will be beautiful when the trees are large, and then interingling another which is agreeable while they are small. These occasional trees are hereafter to be talen away and must be removed in tic, before they become prejudicial to the others.

The consequence of variety in the disposition, is variety in the light and shade of the grove; which may be i ploved by the choice of the trees. Some are impenetrable to the fiercest sun-bean; bbbers let in hre and there a ray between the large masss of their foliage; and others, thin both of boughs and of leaves, only chequer the ground. very degree of light and shade, from a clare to obscurity, may be managed, partly by the number, and partly by the texture of the troos. Differences only in the manner of their growths have also conredponding effects; there is a closeness under those whose branches descend low, and spread wide; a space and liberty where the arch above is ligh; and frequent transitions from the one to the other are very pleasing. These still are not all the varieties of which the interior of a grove is capable: trees indeed, whose branches nearly reach the ground, being me a sort of thicket, are inconsistent with an open plantation: but though some of the characteristic distinctions are thereby excluded, other varieties Lore Linute succeed in their place; for the freedom of passa, throughout bring every tree in its turn near to the eye, and subjects oven differoncos in foliage to observation. These, slight as they may soc., are agrvoable when they occur: it is true they are not regretted when wantin; but a defect of ornament is not necessarily a blonish.

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

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

The least clump that can be, is or two trees; an. the bout effect they can have is, that their heads united should appour one large tee: tro therefore of different species, or seven or eight of such shapes to to not easily join, can hardly be a beautiful troupo, est cially if it have a tendency to a circular form. Such clumps of fire, though very common