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t)f the one, and tlie beauty and nicety of the other would be 

 fully appreciated. The description, as attempted above, is 

 necessarily long, and for that reason, it may seem to many 

 both complicated and tedious ; but the processes themselves 

 are as simple as they are effective, as has been acknowledged 

 by all who have examined them at this place. 



Some of the chief advantages attendant on the preserva- 

 tive sytcm, obviously result from this useful method of 

 securing, by a kind of cup like embankment underground, 

 the central mass or nucleus of the root, and rendering the 

 tree steadfast and immovable, in spite of the utmost violence 

 of the wind, from whatever quarter it may blow. The con- 

 sequence is, that the roots being of great length, and con- 

 sisting of innumerable and minute ramifications, instead of 

 being crowded and cramped up in the ordinary manner, 

 have as good and ample a range of pasturage, on the fine 

 mould which has been prepared for them, as they had in 

 their original situations, and in many cases a great deal 

 better. What is of most moment of all is, that, from the 

 singular steadfastness of the stem, they soon naturalize 

 themselves to the spot, and go in search of their food ; with- 

 out suffering agitation at a period, when an undishirhed 

 state of the fibres affords the best hope of continued stability, 

 and therefore the best earnest of success. Thus, what is 

 planted now on this principle, gives the Immediate Effect 

 OF Wood in the present day, together with the best prospect 

 of becoming timber of as great magnitude as the soil and 

 climate will admit, for the succeeding generation. 



That the success of park-wood, planted here on the sys- 

 tem in question, has been extraordinary, will be admitted 

 from this fact alone, that although I never prop or support a 

 tree after removal, yet not one has been blown down in this 

 park in (he course of thirty years: and as to deaths, one 

 in from forty to forty-five being the average number, con- 



