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Clump
Also called clumps
A small group of trees standing in open ground in a landscape park, planted to break the view, crown a rise or frame a prospect; often fenced while young. Brown used them freely, and Price and Repton criticised the habit.
See also: Belt
Rules that use the word
Lawn to the door, clumps on the rises, a belt round the edge. Bring grass up to the walls of the house and keep the cattle off it with a ha-ha; plant trees in clumps on the rising ground and as single specimens on the lawn; and enclose the park with a belt of woodland, with a drive inside it from which the park is seen.
Roughness and sudden variation. Value in a landscape the qualities painters seek, roughness, sudden variation and irregularity, which are neither beautiful nor sublime but picturesque; keep old trees, broken banks and intricate views, and do not smooth everything into lawn and clump.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Gardens and Landscape.
A feature of English landscape garden architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Claude glass · Clerestory · Cloister vault · Close studding · Coffer · Collar · Column · Commensurability