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calculated to render the Treatise itself more worthy than it 

 is of the public notice. 



It was my intention also, to have added another Section 

 or Chapter, on the necessity of combining some acquaintance 

 with landscape gardening with the art of giving Immediate 

 Effect to Wood, either by very considerable skill in the 

 former art. possessed by the planter himself, or by his obtain- 

 ing it, • when wanted, from its professed teachers. If by 

 planting small trees in the ordinary manner, even flagrant 

 errors in landscape be committed, a considerable space of 

 time must elapse, ere they become distinguishable by the 

 eye, when there is sufficient leisure for the planter to correct 

 them, with little labour to himself But, if the same errors, 

 be committed with plants twenty and thirty feet high, they 

 are at once obvious to all, and being prominent and offen- 

 sive, they cannot be remedied, without vast expense and 

 labour. This, as I conceive, is a very important subject, 

 and deserves the serious consideration of those who mean to 

 practise the art which has been treated in the foregoing pages. 



In respect to the employing of professional men, which 

 seems the most advisable method, I meant likewise to have 

 shown, in the intended Section, that that method is not 

 always so easy to be adopted, as might at first sight appear, 

 in the present neglected state of Landscape Gardening as an 

 art, with the diminished numbers of its professors, and the 

 unmerited disregard in which their useful labours have been 

 held, for the last five-and-twenty years. In fact, few persons 

 of education and talents, either in the south or north, are 

 now found regularly to study this elegant profession. In 

 Scotland, I could not name a man, who has attained even 

 ordinary proficiency in it. If j'ou want your land drained, 

 or your kitchen-garden laid out or improved, the professional 

 person who undertakes it will probably offer his assistance 

 to improve your park ; and he will to a certainty spoil your 

 place, if you permit him, 



