Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon].

  • Thomas Whately
Date:
1777
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Credit: Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 363] hends all trees and fhrubs in whatever difpofitions but it is fpecifically applied in a’ more limited fenfe, and in that fenfe T thall now ufe it.’ ‘Every plantation muft be either a ees a grove, a clump, or a fingle treey i a A wood i is compofed both of trees and under- wood, covering a confiderable fpace, ’ A ‘grove ‘confifts of trees without underwood;~a clump differs’ from either only in extent ;°it may° be either clofe or open ; when clofe, it is fometimes called a thicket; when open, a groupeof trees ; but both are equally cluimps, whatever be the fhape or digo dete | ‘XVII. One of the nobleftt beans in nature is the Surface of a large thick wood, commanded from an eminence, or feen from below hanging on the fide of a hill. The’ latter’ is generally the more interefting object: its afpiring fituation gives it an air of greatnefs; its termination is commonly the horizon; and indeed if it is _ deprived of that fplendid boundary, if the brow appears above it, (unlefs fome very “peculiar effect characterifes that brow) it lofes much of its magnificence; it is inferior to a wood which covers a lefs hill from the top to the bottom; for a whole fpace filled is feldom little : but a wood commanded from an eminence is gene- rally no more than a part of the fcene below ; and