| §1. | Frequent occurrence of foliage in the works of the old masters. | 384 |
| §2. | Laws common to all forest trees. Their branches do not taper, but only divide. | 385 |
| §3. | Appearance of tapering caused by frequent buds. | 385 |
| §4. | And care of nature to conceal the parallelism. | 386 |
| §5. | The degree of tapering which may be represented as continuous. | 386 |
| §6. | The trees of Gaspar Poussin. | 386 |
| §7. | And of the Italian school generally, defy this law. | 387 |
| §8. | The truth, as it is given by J. D. Harding. | 387 |
| §9. | Boughs, in consequence of this law, must diminish where they divide. Those of the old masters often do not. | 388 |
| §10. | Boughs must multiply as they diminish. Those of the old masters do not. | 389 |
| §11. | Bough-drawing of Salvator. | 390 |
| §12. | All these errors especially shown in Claude's sketches, and concentrated in a work of G. Poussin's. | 391 |
| §13. | Impossibility of the angles of boughs being taken out of them by wind. | 392 |
| §14. | Bough-drawing of Titian. | 392 |
| §15. | Bough-drawing of Turner. | 394 |
| §16. | Leafage. Its variety and symmetry. | 394 |
| §17. | Perfect regularity of Poussin. | 395 |
| §18. | Exceeding intricacy of nature's foliage. | 396 |
| §19. | How contradicted by the tree-patterns of G. Poussin. | 396 |
| §20. | How followed by Creswick. | 397 |
| §21. | Perfect unity in nature's foliage. | 398 |
| §22. | Total want of it in Both and Hobbima. | 398 |
| §23. | How rendered by Turner. | 399 |
| §24. | The near leafage of Claude. His middle distances are good. | 399 |
| §25. | Universal termination of trees in symmetrical curves. | 400 |
| §26. | Altogether unobserved by the old masters. Always given by Turner. | 401 |
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