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sitore iL f,o propel [)astuic, tlic value ul llie lliiiinings of the 

 wood may be allowed to cover those items. 



Thus, then, it appears, that by the ordinary method, you 

 may have a group or plantation, consisting of two and 

 twenty trees, for Z/. 151 IGs. 8d. ; and by means of the 

 transplanting machine, for LAI 8s., or nearly the thirteenth 

 part of the money ! ! ! I conceive, that it would not be 

 easy to give a more complete answer than this comparative 

 statement to those persons, who object to transplanting 

 on the score of expense ; exclusively altogether of the dif- 

 ference of obtaining the Effect of Wood, in the one case cU 

 once, and of waiting thirty years to obtain it, in the other. 



Having now adduced a sufficient number of examples from 

 my own experience, it will be proper to add some corrobora- 

 tion of them, from the experience of others. But it must be 

 the experience or practice of such persons only, as have ac- 

 quired some idea of the principles of the art. It is true, many 

 persons of late years, have professed to follow my system 

 and have failed in the attempt, merely from a want of 

 acquaintance with the principles on which it is founded. 

 This, it is obvious, is a sort of communication, which I could 

 make only to particular friends. But it is quite erroneous to 

 suppose, that, from superior dexterity alone in my workmen, 

 the consequence of long practice, any thing can be done here^ 

 that may not, with the same care and attention, be done else- 

 where. 



The first person I shall mention is my friend James 

 Smith, esq. of Jordanhill in the county of Renfrew, but in the 

 neighbourhood of Glasgow. The mansion-house of Jordan- 

 hill is situated on an eminence, about four miles west of the 

 city, and commands a most extensive view of that fine vale, 

 in which the Clyde majestically Hows towards Ruthglen and 

 Dumbarton. The place in general is handsomely wooded, 

 but is deficient in the quarter which overlooks the vale ; ajid. 



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