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bandry, will engage the attention of some able 

 physiologist, and be thoroughly illustrated in all 

 its parts. 



Meanwhile, it is the purpose of the present 

 essay to treat chiefly of "Giving Immediate Eflect 

 to Wood, by the Removal of Large Trees," and 

 to lay down the principles and explain the practice 

 by which that desirable object may be accom- 

 plished. In doing this, it is obvious, that the art 

 of General Planting must at the same time be 

 taught, as both, being governed by the same ge- 

 neral laws, should of course be practised on the 

 same known principles. In removing wood for 

 the purpose of creating real landscape, plants of a 

 large size are necessarily employed ; and, as such 

 materials are far more unwieldy, and more difficult 

 to manage, than those of ordinary planting, they 

 require far greater dexterity, as well as greater 

 science. If, then, it hold true in arboriculture, as it 

 does in logic, that " the greater necessarily com- 

 prises the less," it is probable that the rules of 

 general planting will in this way be more forcibly 

 impressed on the reader's mind, than if they were 

 studied in any other manner. 



In order to render the Art of Giving Immediate 

 Effect to Wood as intelligible as possible, I have, 



