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underwood of every common sipecies, by means of the 

 transplanting machine ; and exhibiting within itself a prac- 

 tical illustration of every principle laid down, and every 

 theory held forth in this Essay. The single trees and bushes, 

 in groups and open dispositions, amount to about seven 

 hundred in number, exclusively of close plantations and 

 copse-wood. Their size, when removed, was not great, the 

 largest not exceeding from thirty to forty feet in height, and 

 from three, or three-and-a-half, to five feet in girth, at a foot 

 from the ground ; but many of them were of much smaller 

 dimensions. The height of the bushes or underwood re- 

 moved was from four to ten feet, and consisting of every sort 

 usually found on the banks and lakes of rivers. But size, 

 in an art founded on scientific principles, is a mere matter of 

 choice and expenditure ; for trees of the greatest size are as 

 susceptible of removal, as those of the least. It was desira- 

 ble, however, as almost every thing was to be done here, in 

 the way of Park-wood, to limit the operations to the smallest 

 possible expenditure, consistently with producing some effect 

 on the foreground, and middle distance of the landscape, and 

 with careful execution. 



Whoever will take the trouble to visit the place, will per- 

 haps find his labour repaid, in examining the progress of an 

 art, calculated probably to become as popular as any that 

 has been cultivated within a century ; as there is scarcely 

 any one, in which so many persons in the higher and middle 

 ranks are interested. 



Considering the prejudices, which once existed against the 

 art, and that the great power, of which it is susceptible, will 

 with difficulty gain belief, it may be worth while to state a 

 few facts as to its general application, which are as incontro- 

 vertible, as they may seem surprising to the reader. It \n 

 from no vain desire to exaggerate what has been done at 

 this place, but merely to show the degree of progress, which 

 the art has made, under the greatest disadvantages of soil 



