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•grounds of conclusive proof. l"'or this reason, it will be 

 proper to select one or two recent instances for the purpose, 

 in which certain work lias been done, at some certain and 

 specific price. 



Of all the ways, in which the art of transplanting can 

 display its power, there is no one more conspi(;uous, than 

 when it is employed to relieve or decorate ornamental build- 

 ings, or to mask such as are obtrusive or unsightly, and for 

 that reason require concealment. If a new approach, for 

 example, be made to a place, and a new entrance-gate and 

 lodge be executed, in a situation where no wood exists, there 

 is nothing more common than to see such erections, hand- 

 some perhaps in themselves, 



" Standing in blank and desolated state," 



for fifteen or twenty years, and exhibiting to the traveller 

 that want of power to give Immediate Efiect to Wood, which, 

 as has been already stated, is a desideratum in the landscape 

 gardener's department, and which the art under considera- 

 tion is calculated to supply. 



It so happened, about five years since, that a new entrance 

 was made to this place, and a new lodge and gateway erected. 

 It being from a quarter of secondary importance, and other 

 works being on hand at the time of a more pressing nature, 

 the wooding of the spot was deferred, and the building al- 

 lowed to stand for four years, in the bleak condition just now 

 described. The lodge was placed near the top of a steep 

 bank, overhanging the Calder, which is here an insignificant 

 stream ; and it had no wood of any sort to cover it, except- 

 ing four solitary fir-trees, of about sixty years' growth, and 

 at some distance from one another. It is impossible, there- 

 fore, that any thing could be more " blank and desolate," or, as 

 the landscape gardeners phrase it, more completely "staring." 

 Being aware that these defects could be at any time remedied, 

 I did not resolve, till the spring of 1826, to do away the re- 



