button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.42-43
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[ever]greens is proportionably small, and they are generally so situated that first being cleared to some distance of the annually leafing trees, and afterwards tastefully reduced in their numbers, they would become objects of great interest from all parts of the valley; for dark firs ought never to be exhibited in immediate contrast with other trees, particularly such as are occasionally of brilliant tints; those in the fields ought likewise to be thinned; and, where practicable, the removed trees transplanted to a little distance, and in such a way as to produce a picturesque irregularity.
Among many points of view, some one will be better than the rest; and this point, particularly if from a road, is the first to be attended to: the genius of every other point must likewise be consulted, and openings made in the woods from each of them, so as to produce the finest pictures the nature
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of the materials will allow of; always attentively considering in thinning for one station how the rest will be affected by such thinning. Those trees which have been marked for their stateliness, elegance, or beauty, must, however, for the present, remain untouched till all the rest have been removed, and the adjoining lands decorated by transplanting from the woods the most beautiful and the largest trees that are likely to grow from such transplanting.
All the new associations on the outsides of the woods must be of various sorts of trees; several of the same kind ought, notwithstanding, to be massed as the principals of the groups in which they stand; these groups must likewise be of many different sizes, and so placed as to add a grace and dignity to what had previously been performed.
The business of cutting and of transplanting being done, it will exhibit not
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