paragraph the Oak was still living, it will be noticed that, in first mentioning it, he says 'About ten years ago,' &c., 'stood an Oak.' Possibly the entire tree may have disappeared before the publication of the 'Forest Scenery,' the manuscript of which was written, as our Author stated, ten years before it was first published.-ED. Combinations of Trees. SECTION I. TREES IN CLUMPS. ROM considering trees as individuals, we proceed next to consider them under their various combinations; among which clumps are the simplest. What number of trees make a clump no rules of art prescribe. The term has rather a relative meaning. In scenes brought near the eye we call three or four trees a clump; but in distant and extensive scenery we scruple not to use the term for any smaller detached part of a wood, though it may consist of some hundreds. But though the term admits not of exact definition, I shall en |