The sketch [fig. 80] shews, with accuracy, the situation of the several trees which ought to be removed. It has been laid down, by a recent author before named, as a general rule for improvement, to plant largely and cut down sparingly: this is the cautious advice of timidity and inexperience; for, in some situations, improvement may be effected by the axe rather than by the spade, of which this sketch furnishes an instance: the trees in a straight line, at the bottom of the hill, have in vain been encumbered by young trees, planted with a view of breaking their formal row; while in reality they produce the contrary effect. I rather advise boldly taking away all the young trees, and part of the old ones, but particularly an oak, which not only hides the forked stem of a tree behind, but from its situation depresses the other trees, and lessens the magnitude and importance both of the hill and of the grove, by which its brow is covered" [see fig. 81].
