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SECTION V. 



FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW THEORY, 

 SELECTION OF SUBJECTS FOR REMOVAL. 



If it be true, as has been observed by a judicious writer,* 

 that the removal of large trees " forms the most difficult part 

 of planting," it is certainly not less true, that the selection 

 of subjects forms the most difficult part of transplanting. 

 This I have no expectation is to gain general belief with 

 country gentlemen, or even with practical planters of superior 

 intelligence ; because both consider planting merely as a 

 mechanical art, and neither will easily be brought to study 

 it as an object of interesting science, or even liberal inquiry. 

 When Demosthenes was asked, what he considered as the 

 first quality in an orator, he at once replied, action ; accord- 

 ing to the very extensive acceptation of that term, which 

 prevailed in his day. When questioned as to the second 

 quality, he said, action ; and being desired to name the third, 

 he stiU gave the same answer. In this emphatic way, I 

 must own, I should be disposed to speak of the selection of 

 subjects, were I to be similarly questioned by the young 

 planter, whether his curiosity were directed to planting in 

 general, or to any particular branch or department of the 

 art ; and I should earnestly recommend this difficult subject 

 to his patient investigation, and his most assiduous study. 



* Marshall. 



