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The soil being light sand, the grove trees chiefly employed 

 10 form tiiis plantation are beech, sycamore, birch, and a few 

 limes. The copse or underwood consists of oak, mossy-cup 

 oak, beech, chestnut, birch, Norway maple, holly, hazel, 

 mountain-ash, and birds-cherry common and Canadian. 

 Of the grove-wood it is a singular circumstance, that not a 

 tree failed last season, notwithstanding the endurance, as 

 well as severity of the drought, during a summer truly tro- 

 pical. Some of the bushes, however, died, and particularly 

 the holly. 



Another example of a similar sort shall be merely alluded 

 to, as an account of it, much better than any I could give, is 

 to be found in the Report of the Committee of the Highland 

 Society. It relates to the wooding of two acres of ground in 

 1819, as a close plantation, in order to give effect to another 

 part of the same approach. It was executed in the space of 

 three months, that is, from February to May ; and the 

 entire expense (which I ascertained for the information of the 

 Committee) amounted to about 301. per acre ; but some of 

 the grove trees were of large dimensions. Of the sudden 

 and successful formation of this skreen, the able committee 

 just now named are pleased to express themselves in the fol- 

 lowing terms :* 



"When the extreme beauty of the effects produced is 

 considered, it cannot be thought extravagant, that the 

 plantation of grove and copse-wood, on the two acres already 

 mentioned, should amount (as appears from Sir Henry's 

 memoranda (to about 301. per acre. On the contrary, the 

 committee believe, that no visible change on the appearance 

 of natiue, however trivial in comparison, could have been 

 effected by the landscape gardener in any other manner, 

 under three times the sum." 



These will probably be deemed sufficient, as positive 



* See their Report in the Appendix. 



