button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.34-35
button title page
button previous page button next page
page 34:-
in which case every farm within twenty miles of Langdale pikes should have a different landlord.
True taste does not, in conspicuous places exhibit large plantations or lumps of evergreen, in circles, in squares, in parallelograms, or in any other mathematical figure, nor often in rows. Ancient evergreens are, however, sublime objects; but as every thing is young before it is old, in order to obtain this sublimity, care must be taken by every possible means first to procure beauty; for which purpose, amongst other necessary attention, it will be proper, by occasionally thinning, to keep the heads of such youthful plants asunder; for the purse and the eye will suffer much where this, as a principle, has not been attended to.
Many evergreens in one group seldom appear to advantage; nor do they associate well in plantations with deciduous trees; for which reason they
page 35:-
should be obscured by other trees, in places where their growth is considered necessary for the well being of the neighbouring community.
Occasionally appearing on the summits, or on the sides of knolls, aged evergreens, if well distributed, have a good effect; they are likewise grand accompaniments to halls or farm houses of the ancient Westmorland construction; and, of deciduous trees, the sycamore is their best companion in such situations.
  forestry
  park land
It is not intended here to speak at large of the trees best suited to the genius of the mountains, nor of that mode of combination by which the landed proprietors may ultimately aggrandize their families; that has been attempted before in the work before spoken of; but it may not be improper now to offer a few general remarks to such as have large estates, and have no disinclination to improve them.
button next page
button to main menu Lakes Guides menu.