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enlai'genicnt of the stem. But tlic expense of such an 

 apparatus, for trees of moderate size, including painting of 

 the colour of the bark, could not be less than from twelve 

 to fifteen shillings each, which would completely preclude 

 its general adoption. A guard, therefore, which should be 

 at once neat, cheap, and durable, seems still to be a deside- 

 ratum in park economy. 



There being between seven and eight hundred trans- 

 planted trees and bushes in loose dispositions in the Park 

 here, it was necessary to construct sometliing less hideous, 

 and less costly, than seven or eight hundred hurdles or 

 palings of four feet square ; as no features of landscape nor 

 richness of foliage could have redeemed so overwhelming a 

 deformity. In Engraving II. the reader will find the deli- 

 neation of such a guard for a park tree, as has be'bn for 

 several years adopted at this place, and it is recommended 

 not less by its neatness, than by its unobtrusiveness and 

 efficiency. The trifling expense likewise, which attends it, 

 is of no small importance in situations, where any consider- 

 able number of trees stand in need of protection. 



This guard is composed of stakes of larch-wood, made 

 like hedgestakes, but somewhat lighter and neater. They 

 are about three feet three inches long, and six or seven in- 

 ches in girth, at the larger end. They are flattened at the 

 smaller end, to the thickness of about three quarters of an 

 inch, for applying closely to the tree, and pointed at the 

 larger, for driving into the ground. The workmen, in set- 

 ting them up, drive them into the ground, four or five inches 

 out from the stem, and three asunder. The tops being flat, 

 and about two inches broad, they unite in a neat manner 

 round the stem, when pressed to it, and firmly bound round 

 with marline, half twisted and pitched, such as is used on 

 board a ship, to secure the ends of the cables. A small 

 piece of doubled mat, four inches broad, is previously put 

 between the tops of the stakes and the stem, in order to 



