CONTENTS OF NOTES. XXXv'u 



VIII. Antiquity of tlie prejudice of preserving the same position of 

 Trees on Removal. Thcophrastus, Cato, Columella, Palladius, Virgil, 

 Wise, Cook. Good sense of Pliny reprobated by Evelyn, and con- 

 firmod by Miller. Prejudice continued down to the present period, 

 p.3Gl. 



SECTION V. 



Note I. Vast importance of a judicious selection of subjects. 

 Success or Miscarriage always regulated accordingly. If injudiciously 

 selected, all advancement is retarded, until the Deficient Properties be 

 supplied. Various illustrations of this uniform principle, p. 364. 



SECTION VI. 



Note I. Chemical Opinions respecting Soils. Fourcroy, Hassen- 

 fratz. Young. Bergman's idea of the best possible soil. — Analysis by 

 Sir H. Davy, of the Soil at Sheffield Place, p. 366. — Note III. Lord 

 Meadowbank, one of the greatest benefactors to the British Farmer, as 

 well as Arboriculturist. Improvement on his Method of preparing Ma- 

 nure from Peat. Details of the new Process, p. 367. — Moss-Compost 

 prepared with Lime, according to Lord Dundonald's method. Pecu- 

 liarly valuable, in procuring Cheap Manure, without encroaching on the 

 Farmyard, p. 368. — Note IV. Great Improvement made in the com- 

 mon mode of Trenching or Double-digging. Three spits deep recom- 

 mended, instead of Two, and no Shovellings. Particulars of this 

 Method, as practised at Allanton House. Greater Depth, and greater 

 Comminution of the parts obtained by it, p. 37L 



Mr. Withers's Two Pamphlets. 



First Pamphlet ; Great power of Trenching and Manuring, to acce- 

 lerate the Growth of Wood, and the return to the Planter.* System 

 not new ; well known to the ancients, and to every modem nation ; fa- 

 miliar to myself forty years ago, p. 372. — Important for particular pur- 

 poses, but not adapted to General Planting, p. 373. — Unfounded and 

 erroneous in Mr. Withers, to call the Pitting method of Planting "the 



* The Title of the Pamphlet is ; "A Memoir addressed to the .'Society for the encou- 

 ragement of Arts, &c. on the Planting and Rearing of Forest Trees, demonstrating the 

 necessity of Trenching Ground, &c., and the powerful and proiitable Eflects of Ma- 

 nure."— Second Edit. London, 1826. 



