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and useful .Stock for a i*ark. Defences against ihein usually liidcous, 

 as well as expensive. Efncient and economical Plan of a Guard lor 

 Trees, p. 253. — Watering during the first season an indispensable part 

 of Afterwork. Water-Oart, p. 257. — Backwardness in the (irowth of 

 Trees, an obscure subject, little understood by I'lanters, p. 259. — New 

 mode of remedying that evil. Panacean Compost. Juices from the 

 Dunghill, p. 260. — Causes of Backwardness, a subject of great interest 

 to the General Planter. Five causes that may probaidy contribute to 

 it. Remarkable, that nearly all of them bear reference to the First 

 year after Removal, p. 263. — Method of Setting Straight Trees in the 

 second and third season. Propping or Supporlmg them quite unknown 

 in the Preservative System, p. 269. — II. Afterwork for Close Woods 

 and Plantations. Immense advantage of Creating a Superior Climate, 

 p. 271. — Other details of Management. Transferred Woods after two 

 years equal to ordinary Plantations of Five-and-Forty. In the Park 

 at Allanton, the Removed Woods decidedly the most healthy and vi- 

 gorous, p. 272. 



SECTION XI. 



EXPENSE ATTENDING THE FOREGOING OPERATIONS. 



Expense of the Preservative method unfairly exaggerated. One of 

 its chief objects to lessen the expense, p. 275. — I. Examples drawn 

 from my own practice. Expense of Preparation in various ways, 

 p. 276. — Of Taking-up, Transporting, and Planting. Example of the 

 cost of transferring a Tree from 15 to 18 feet high. Of another from 

 25 to 30 feet, p. 279. — Example of work executed at Allanton House, 

 between 1816 and 1821, delineated in the Frontispiece, p. 281. Ano- 

 ther example, in wooding an Entrance-Gate. Description of the ground. 

 New plan of External Planting recommended, so as to produce Pictu- 

 resque Effect in Park-Entrances, p. 283. — Example of wooding Two 

 Acres, as seen by the Highland Society, p. 286. — Comparative view of 

 the cost of wooding a Promontory, by means of the Machine, and by 

 the Common method of Planting, p. 287. — II. Examples drawn from 

 the practice of others. Expense of Removals, made by James Smith, 

 Esq. of Jordanhill, p. 289.— By John M'Call, Esq. of Ibroxhill, p. 292. 

 — By Robert Watson, Esq. Banker in Glasgow, p. 293. — By Mr. James 

 Hamilton, Overseer to Sir Charles Lockhart, Bart. p. 294. — By Wil- 

 liam Elliot Lockhart, Esq. of Cleghorn, M.P., p. 296.— By Sir Walter 

 Scott, Bart, of Abbotsford, p. 298. — Ascertained Expense of transfer- 



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