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10 the accuracy of the work. Here subjects of all denomina- 

 tions may be most conveniently trained and disciplined. 

 From a muscry like this, as from a great repository of mate- 

 rials, high and low, light and massive, spreading and spiral 

 trees may be brought forth at pleasure, as may best suit the 

 planter's design; and without throwing away or misapply- 

 ing the prerequisites for success, he may have the power of 

 wooding the highest, as well as the lowest parts of his 

 grounds. The fact is, that all grove-wood from about twenty 

 to forty years' growth, if properly thinned and pruned, after 

 the first ten or twelve years, so as that the tops are never af- 

 ter aliflKured to touch one another, may be esteemed the best 

 transplanting nurseries of any, provided that the soil be loose 

 and friable ; but there is no necessity for its being extremely 

 deep. On the contrary, a thin clay, or peaty loam is a desir- 

 able soil for training various trees, such as the oak, the beech, 

 and the birch, as it gives great facilities, both in the preparing 

 and taking up. Woody glades, or small forest lawns, left 

 open in the original planting of a place, are likewise most 

 commodious as sites for nursery-ground. But to find woods 

 or plantations so trained, for a series of years, to wide distan- 

 ces, is extremely rare, although valuable when they are 

 found. I know but one example, in this part of the country, 

 to the extent of from fifteen to twenty acres. But there may 

 easily be others that have escaped my notice. A depart- 

 ment, however, of the woodland of a place, of the age just 

 now mentioned, retired from the view, but little sheltered by 

 surrounding objects, is the most favourable situation, both 

 for the convenience, and the efficiency of the nursery- 



1 once more entreat the forgiveness of the reader, for here 

 obtruding some further account of my own practice. But 

 should he have any extent of grounds to be planted for im- 

 mediate eflect, and fortunately possess, as I do, a remnant of 

 the old belt of Brown and his followers, or what would be 

 still more valuable, any of the circular or oval clumps of that 



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