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as the latter skirts the principal approach, it was desirable, by 

 means of a number of foreground trees, to break so wide an 

 expanse into separate portions. By obscuring the less inter- 

 esting points, and bringing forward in detail those that were 

 more important, a far greater interest might be conferred on 

 so noble an assemblage of oljjects. 



In these circumstances, Mr. Smith, who was about to plant 

 the open ground in the ordinary manner, applied to me for 

 advice and assistance : and I recommended it to him to im- 

 prove the spot, by transferring Large Trees at once, and 

 thereby to produce whatever effect he pleased on the fore- 

 ground, and the middle distance of the landscape. Under- 

 standing that his subjects for removal were rather older than 

 was desirable, (some of them being trees of from fifty to 

 sixty years' growth,) the first thing to be done was, to procure 

 him a machine of the intermediate size, very strongly made. 

 See Plate, and the relative specifications. Two of the most 

 experienced of my workmen were then sent down from 

 this place, in order to instruct his people in the use of it; and 

 in less than three days, they made wonderful proficiency 

 in the practice. 



Mr. Smith, who is a man of science as well as various ac- 

 complishments, soon acquired a conception of the principles. 

 He saw, with pleasure and surprise, the striking improve- 

 ments, that by means of vegetable physiology might be com- 

 municated to an art, of which the vast power was unknown 

 to the public ; and he resolved to avail himself of it, in his 

 own improvements. Instead of indolently trusting to others, 

 he ardently entered into the details of the execution. He 

 often became the director of his own work ; and so rapid was 

 his advancement in practical skill, that, in the space of 

 a fortnight, he removed trees of thirty and five-and-thirty feet 

 high, and of great thickness, with the utmost success. 



The cllects at once jirodiiced on so bold and Ijeautiful 



