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country must be coiisidcrcil as indebted to liiin, as a liberal patron of the 

 arts, and as being among the first persons who introduced Landscape 

 Gardening into Scotland. 



Note XV. Page Sl- 

 it is here said in the text, that the lightening, that is, mutilating the 

 fine tops of trees, is the ordinary, and nearly the universal practice in 

 England ; and it might have been added, with equal truth, that it pre- 

 vails more or less, in every other part of the British empire, vsrhere the 

 transferring of large trees is known and practised. 



After all the investigations, which I have been able to make, into 

 the practice of such English planters as the Marquisses of London- 

 derry and Stafford, Mr. Gibson, and Sir R. Arkwright in the north, 

 the Duke of Portland, Marquis of Hertford, Lord Caernarvon, Lord 

 Grenville, Sir James Gardiner, Mr. Thistlethwaite, and Mr. Long in 

 the south, Sir Aubrey De Vere Hunt, and others in Ireland, who have 

 removed Wood with various degrees of success, it appears, that they 

 all adhere more or less to the Mutilating system : that they take up 

 the tree, after lightening the top, with short and incompetent roots, 

 but with a great mass or ball of earth attached to it : that they raise it 

 with a strong crane, upon alow platform, with wheels, or rather rollers, 

 stiU lower: and after conveying it upright and with much difficulty, 

 they have as great difficulty in propping and supporting it, after being 

 planted. The only improvement practised seems to be the cutting 

 round the roots, according to Lord Fitzharding's method ; but that is 

 often done in the season immediately preceding the removal, when 

 little benefit can be derived from it. 



By this method, it is obvious that immense lab our, and consequently 

 very considerable expense, is incurred in the removal of Wood, and 

 far more than should be incurred in an art, calculated to be generally 

 useful. In fact, the objection of difficulty and expense united, is 

 quite sufficient to counteract or limit the adoption of any art, however 

 valuable, and render it unpopular with the public. 



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