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equal, such subjects will succeed the best, as are endued in 

 tlie greatest degree with these prerequisites or properties. 



Thirdly : We must infer, that the four opposite, or non- 

 protecting properties, described as belonging to sheltered trees, 

 which are not developed in their natural and perfect propor- 

 tions, however fitted such properties may be for themy are 

 unsuitable to removal, and are, on that account, not less stu- 

 diously to be avoided by the planter, in the selection of his 

 subjects. Indeed, in reflecting on the most striking instances 

 of failure, it is observable, that such are always associated 

 Avith these unfavourable properties. 



Fourthly : It is plain, if we mean to succeed in transferring 

 trees of any magnitude, in our lawns or parks, that we must 

 endeavour to follow the example of nature, in ordering such 

 subjects. The practical course, then, to be pursued is, to 

 adopt the subjects possessing the protecting provisions or 

 properties, wherever they can be found, and to communicate 

 them to others, in which they are wanting, by the easiest 

 methods. Another rule seems to be. that, in following na- 

 ture, we may accommodate or adapt the principle to the par- 

 ticular circumstances and situation, in which we chance to 

 operate : That, although we must rigidly adhere to it, as na- 

 ture does, in severe exposures, we may yet proportionally 

 relax it, as warmth or shelter is more or less afforded to our 

 subjects : Or, as has been expressed with greater precision 

 above, we must prospectively maintain the same harmony 

 between the existing provisions of the tree, and the exigen- 

 cies of its new situation, as had previously subsisted between 

 its relative properties, and the circumstances of its former 

 site. 



Fifthly : If we adopt this principle, and follow it up with 

 a judicious mode of execution, it seems evident, that the ne- 

 cessity of defacing or mutilating the fine tops of trees will 

 be entirely superseded. We shall obtain at once, what the 

 art, as hitherto practised, has not been able to obtain for us. 



