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the wealthy. New sites, tlieiefoic, are fieciucntly piefened 

 to improved residences, at wliicli the mansion is yet to be 

 built, the farm to be improved, and the park laid out and 

 planted. All feel the pleasure of contriving their own ac- 

 commodations, and imagining and composing their own 

 landscapes ; and they look forward with delight to the timC) 

 when they may witness the full accomplishment of the latter, 

 by the wood arriving at maturity. By the planter himself, 

 however, a gratification so exquisite can hardly be expected ; 

 and that discouraging idea cannot fail in some degree to cool 

 his ardour, and damp his enjoyments. 



To such persons especially, and to all men possessed of 

 land-property, the Immediate Effect of Wood must appear a 

 considerable object, if any method can be devised to obtain 

 it with success and certainty. What, then, would such 

 persons say, were they informed, that so obscure a practice 

 as that of transplanting could do this ; that an entire 

 park could be thus wooded at once, and forty years of hfe 

 anticipated ? The fact is, that the possibility of the improve- 

 ment, and much more have been verified, by pretty extensive 

 experience. Groups and single trees have been scattered 

 every where in such a park at pleasure, in all sorts of soils 

 and exposures, and applied to the composition or the im- 

 provement of real landscape. Instead of lopping and 

 nmtilating the trees, and sometimes altogether decapitating 

 them (as has been the general practice,) the grand point has 

 been gained of pj'eserving- their tops entire ; so that, Avith 

 subjects of whatever magnitude, no loss of either spray or 

 branches is suffered ; and, what is still more important, no 

 loss of health and vigour in the trees, excepting for a short 

 period, after having undergone the process of removal. 



But, besides the various combinations and details of the 

 landscape,* it has been found also quite practicable to apply 



* Note V. 



