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as important and deserving of consideration, as any one that 

 has been delivered in the present Section. Although some- 

 what may be lost, in missing the carbonic acid gas, and the 

 genial influence of the atmosphere, which are introduced 

 during the work, in order to excite vegetation, yet a superior 

 object is gained, by a fuller incorporation of the compost with 

 the soil, during the renewed comminution of the whole, when 

 the planting takes place. No doubt, an excellent soil, as has 

 been already seen, may be obtained at the moment, ancf un- 

 der tlie pressure of circumstances, by ingenuity and skill. 

 But it W'ill be found by experience, that there is no case, in 

 which a little time and patience is better laid out than in the 

 present, as may be proved by the relative progress of trees 

 that have been planted in the one way, and in the other. 

 I can speak from repeated experience as to the fact, during 

 the last twenty years, when from haste, or impatience, or 

 other motive, I have been induced to sacrifice science to con- 

 venience, and to work the pits, and remove the trees at one 

 and the same time. On one and all of those occasions, I felt, 

 as in many other things, that I was following the worse 

 course, with the better all the while before my eyes. 



In planting new approaches, in wooding the banks of 

 lakes or rivers, by means of the transplanting machine ; in 

 giving additional woody features to grounds near the man- 

 sion-house ; and, in a word, wherever numerous groups or 

 scattered trees are wanted for immediate effect, I earnestly 

 recommend this method to be followed. In an approach, for 

 example, fifty or sixty yards broad, or more, as circumstances 

 may require, should be trenched and prepared, as above, on 

 each side the carriage-way ; and a similar space on the bank 

 of a lake or river. In any less space, there would not be 

 room to group and scatter the trees with a due regard to 

 landscape effect. As to the returning of the ground to grass, 

 although the rest of the park be in pasture at the time, it is 

 not u very formidable task. It may be fenced with hurdles 



