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posiire ; while every succeeding season added fresh beauty 

 and vigour to these thriving nurseries, and made a visible 

 accession to all the desirable prerequisites. 



It is deserving of remark in this place, that no second 

 thinning of these clumps was necessary, although on ordi- 

 nary occasions it would have been indispensable, for the free 

 admission of air among the plants. At this period, I hap- 

 pened to have a good deal of transplanting work upon my 

 hands ; by which means, the original trenching, and the 

 successive removals that were made from the clumps, not 

 only served this salutary purpose, but operated as a complete 

 preparation of the roots, as well as of every other part of the 

 trees, which were left behind : for I found, that, how severely 

 soever they might be cut, I could always return to them after 

 two years, with renewed advantage. The clumps, as it 

 fortunately happened, were pretty numerous. They had 

 been planted in various soils, from the most tenacious clay, 

 to the lightest sand ; therefore, no better opportunity could 

 be figured, for raising forest trees of almost every description 

 with success. The clumps for the most part, by the above 

 operations, were soon reduced to open dispositions of wood, 

 and in some instances, to mere groups of six and seven 

 plants. But some still remained as nurseries for subjects, 

 which, at this moment, are of great size and beauty, and 

 endued in the most eminent degree with all the protecting 

 properties. 



Although few planters may be so fortunate, as to possess 

 such valuable remains of the former school of design, yet 

 no one, I trust, will find nuich difliculty, from the statement 

 just now made, in forming, out of the ordinary plantations 

 of a place, a transplanting nursery for himself. The main 

 object, in such a view, is to select a plantation, which has 

 friable mould for the development of the roots, and, if possi- 

 ble, a dry subsoil ; and such a plantation likewise, as has 

 been the least neglected in proper thinning. The first point 



