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while the diflerence in point of accuracy is material, that I 

 greatly prefer the latter method, unless for the trenching of 

 close plantations, where the same minute attention is not 

 required, and where a far greater space of ground is to be 

 turned up. In the nicer parts of the preparation of the soil, 

 as has been shown in Section VI., it is surprising what may 

 be done for the fine and capillary absorbents of the root, by 

 a minute attention to the comminution of the parts. 



Of the other processes connected with the removal of 

 trees, namely, the taking-up, the transporting, and the plant- 

 ing itself, no part of them can be made the subject of work 

 by contract, and they are to be estimated only by time. This 

 is evident from the very nature of those processes ; and 

 hence, there is no other way, in which the cost can be ascer- 

 tained, excepting by the dimensions of the trees transplanted, 

 the distance from which they are brought, and the particular 

 labour that has attended them. 



If a tree, removed to the open park, be from fifteen to 

 eighteen feet high, and from eighteen inches to two feet in 

 girth, or, in other words, from six to eight inches in diameter, 

 which, as has been already said, is the smallest tree that has 

 strength to resist the elements ; and that the distance it is 

 brought be about half a mile, which may be called a medium 

 distance, the expense, in general, is not found to exceed 6s. 

 6d. If it be from five-and-twenty to thirty feet high, and 

 from three feet to three feet six in girth, the expense is not 

 found to be more than 12s. 6d. This is as accurate an esti- 

 mate as can be made of the present expense of transferring 

 park-wood at this place, with expert workmen ; which must 

 necessarily vary as the size increases, or as the rate itself is 

 varied by circumstances, or controlled by unavoidable and 

 unforeseen accidents. But I have scarcely known an instance, 

 in which plants of the largest size in question cost from 15s. 

 to ISs. Estimates of the particulars for both sizes may be 

 given as follow : 



