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foliage. In ihis, as in nil other dcpailn units in wliicli art is 

 called ill to the aid of nature, those efiforts will always seem 

 the happiest, and please the longest, where ornament is kept 

 down, and where it is made suhservient to the severer graces 

 of composition. 



In this, and the foregoing two Sections, I have now given 

 as clear an account as I could of the Preparing, Taking- 

 up, Transporting and Planting of Large Trees and Un- 

 derwood. From the novelty of the subject, and the difficulty 

 of making manual operations intelligible by words, the whole 

 account has unavoidably been drawn more into length than 

 might have been expected. Some apology, therefore, on the 

 score of tediousness and cucumstantial detail, is due to those 

 who may open the book from mere curiosity. To those, on 

 the other hand, who read for information, and whose object is 

 real practice, the case is considerably different, as they per- 

 haps may be of opinion that the detail, long as it is, has not 

 been given circumstantially enough. 



