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time, added to the uncertain eflfects of both soil and cHmate. 

 But it clearly appears, that the position is disproved here, by 

 the extraordinary power of the transplanting machine, the 

 faciUties of both artists being thereby placed nearly on an 

 equality in respect to wood, the principal material in the 

 formation of all landscapes. 



With facts like the above, verified on such high and re- 

 spectable evidence as that of the Highland Society of Scot- 

 land, we may venture to believe, that the practice of trans- 

 planting, as now improved, and raised to the rank of an art, 

 is calculated to become far more generally useful than has 

 hitherto been imagined. And further, it is probable, that it 

 will form an important ally to gardening in its highest sense, 

 and the most effective engine, which the designer has ever 

 yet employed, to realize his landscapes. 



