PL ANTING.


Occupy the lawn or park in spaces of mathematical sameness;
and it has been observed of small groups, that the effect is most
agreeable, when their trees are planted in odd numbers, at least,
so far as seven, beyond which the eye does not convey to the
mind impressions so accurate as to enable it to determine on the
instant, if the numbers be odd or otherwise.
OF LIGHT AND SHADE.
As display of form in objects depends more or less on light
and shadow, and as, in works of art, they become pleasing or
defective, according as they are produced agreeably to certain
rules, it is necessary to understand them, that in the business
of planting, the forms adopted shall be such as to produce
well regulated effects of light and shade; and the plantations of
the boundary give ample means to obtain them. If these be
planted so as to form large bays and bold promontories, well
disposed to receive the glancing rays of the sun, it is evident
that broad effects of light and shade must transpire; so, in large
masses of planting, if they be formed judiciously, the irregu-
larity of their plans will, at all points of view, exhibit effective
light and shade, without which, such objects are tame and vapid.
In making arrangements to produce the effects of light and
shadow, the objects must be governed upon the same principles
as a painter would dispose them for the purposes of his art; they
would then acquire prominent and modified lights, broad sha-
dows-in part re-illuminated by reflections-middle tints, and
actual depths or darknesses;-it is from the disposition and due
proportion of all these, that what is called force in a picture, is
produced, and it is not otherwise in landscape improvement.
Under the term Light, may be considered the illuminations
of the object, whether within the actual and sparkling effect of
sunshine, or subdued by the operations of distance: The sha-
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