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comparatively trifling; and if there be a supply of 

 trees at not too great a distance, there is no question 

 that a park may be ornamented, or land sheltered, by 

 this means, much more cheaply than by any other, 

 and with the incomparable advantage that it is done 

 at once. After the ground has been prepared, the 

 whole expense of removing and replanting the trees 

 is not more than from ten to thirteen shillings each, 

 for trees of from twenty-five to thirty feet in height; 

 about half that sum for smaller ones; and not above 

 two shillings or eighteen pence for shrubs or brush- 

 wood. The following is Sir Henry's account of his 

 park, extracted from his " Planter's Guide": 



" There was in this park originally no water, and 

 scarcely a tree or a bush on the banks and promon- 

 tories of the present lake and river, for the water 

 partakes of both these characters. During the sum- 

 mer of 1820 the water was executed; and in that 

 and the following year, the grounds immediately 

 adjoining were abundantly covered with wood, by 

 means of the transplanting machine. Groups and 

 single trees, grove and underwood, were introduced, 

 in every style of disposition, which the subject seemed 

 to admit. Where the turf recedes from, or ap- 

 proaches the water, the ground is somewhat bold 

 and irregular, although without striking features of 

 any sort; yet the profusion of wood, scattered over 

 a surface of moderate limits, in every form and va- 

 riety, gave it an intricacy and an expression which it 

 had never possessed before. 



" By the autumn of the third year only after the 

 execution, namely 1823, when the Committee of the 

 Highland Society honoured the place with their in- 

 spection, the different parts seemed to harmonize with 

 one another, and the intended effects were nearly pro- 

 duced. What it was wished to bring forward appeared 

 already prominent what was to be concealed, or 



