Plants seen about the Region of the Notch. 531 



Now, as we have already said, we are not an advocate of 

 the system of removing very large trees ; yet, knowing that 

 it can be done, there are occasions when it is desirable to 

 avail ourselves of the practice, as in that of Mr. Jaques. 

 where the object was to '-relieve the inevitable rawness of a 

 new settlement." Other instances are where individuals, 

 laying out a new place or improving an old one, find it 

 expedient either to cut down or remove a beautiful, rare, or 

 valuable tree : and in others, where some of our finest native 

 trees, not being procurable in the nurseries of any size, must 

 be removed from their native woods, or the possession of 

 them relinquished : again, where trees are exceedingly im- 

 patient of removal, like the hemlock, tulip, &c. : who would 

 begrudge ten, nay, fifty dollars, to have some magnifi- 

 cent and feathery hemlock, growing in the forest, trans- 

 ported, in all its gracefulness and vigor, to the lawn or pleas- 

 ure ground? The fact that transplanting can be successfully 

 performed in such cases, is of great value to all who appre- 

 ciate the beautiful in nature or art. That we can possess 

 ourselves, and immediately too, of the successive growth of 

 forty summers, is in itself a matter of no small surprise. 

 Those advanced in life, who are retiring to the country with 

 plenty of means, by adopting Mr. Jaques's experiment, may 

 realize, in a very short period, the efforts of years. 



Art. II. Some Plants seen about the Region of the Notch, 

 Septembe)^, 1852. By John Lewis Russell. 



Every body, who travels; visits the White Mountains of 

 New Hampshire, the Notch, the Flume at Franconia, and 

 other points of interest, whether at the base of this noble 

 range of hills, or, perchance, the higher summits of the more 

 cloud-piercing. Almost every body makes rapid and violent 

 tours, not of pleasure and comfort, but of time-consuming 

 energy, as if speed was the main object to be secured. 



