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gured, that they seldom recovered the operation. The King 

 of Bavaria. Hkewise, has of late made many removals at his 

 summer palace near Munich, on the same defective princi- 

 ples, and Avith no better success. Count Potocki, about ten 

 years since, at his seat of Talitzin in the Ukraine, seems to 

 have been more skilful, or more fortunate. In order to please 

 and surprise the Countess, his step-mother, on her arrival at 

 home, after some months absence, he successfully removed a 

 double row of lime trees, of more than twenty feet in height, 

 as an avenue to the house. 



The universal complaint, however, in all these countries, 

 as among ourselves, is the constant decay of the tops, in 

 spite of previous rmitilatinn : and that even, were that pro- 

 cess successful in insuring the after-vigour of the trees (which 

 it is far from doing), still their beauty would thereby for a 

 long while be lost. It is true that time, the great restorer of 

 defects, as well as destroyer of beauty, among the vegetable 

 tribe, may partially cover these imperfections. But the Im- 

 mediate Effect of Wood, and the delightful creation of park- 

 scenery, are thus missed by the planter himself, as his sub- 

 jects, for years, look like the sickly offspring of art, not the 

 free produce of nature. It seems, therefore, evident, that 

 some better and more scientific system is still wanting, for 

 the advancement of transplanting ; a system, which should 

 unite certainty of success with a moderate expenditure, in 

 order to bring the art into general use. 



Thus, I have endeavoured to give, as briefly as possible, 

 the History and Progress of the Art of Removing Large 

 Trees, from the earliest times down to the present. We 

 have seen that it was a practice well known to the Greeks ; 

 always considered as desirable, but next to impossible to be 

 carried into effect, by that ingenious people : That, in the 

 hands of the Romans, if it did not altogether retrograde, it 

 was in a condition little better than that, in which the 

 Greeks had left it : That \\\ modern Europe it revived, with 



