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years since, are from tliirty to forty feet liigh, or more ; the girth of the 

 largest being from five feet three, to five feet eight inches, at a foot and 

 a half from tho ground. Sir Henry acquainted us, that " he vpas by no 

 means ambitious to remove the largest possible trees, but to attain the 

 greatest possible success in those which he did remove. In respect to 

 size (he added), if his principles were only followed out, that was a 

 mere matter of expenditure ; because one tree could be removed just 

 as well as another, provided that the owner did not grudge the cost^ 

 To the praise, then, of the most perfect success we consider his exer- 

 tions as fully entitled. 



Our attention was next turned to some single trees of the sycamore, 

 horsechcstnut, and beech species, which had been transplanted, during 

 the first week of April in the present year, so that they had stood about 

 six months in the ground, at the time of our inspection. The height, 

 which, as we were informed, had been accurately taken at the time of 

 their removal, is variously from twenty-eight to thirty-three feet ; and 

 the girth, which we caused to be measured by two of Sir Henry's ser- 

 vants, is two and a half and three feet, at eighteen inches from the 

 ground. These trees were entirely in leaf, when we examined them, 

 and their foUage was of a healthy and deep green color. Their branches 

 were quite entire, and they stood firm and erect, without prop or support. 

 The only difference that the most accurate eye could discover, between 

 these trees and others long since planted, seemed to be, that their leaves 

 were somewhat smaller ; a distinction, which, as we observed in other 

 instances, usually disappears after the first, but always after the second 

 season. 



In viewing these specimens of an art, of the power of which we had 

 formed no adequate conception, the following facts and circumstances 

 particularly struck us, respecting the single and detached trees : we 

 will, therefore, concisely state them, as worthy the notice of the society. 



First, the singular beauty and symmetry of the trees ; the uncommon 

 girth of their stems, in proportion to their height ; and the complete 

 formation of their branches, and spreading tops. In fact, they appear, 

 instead of " stripling plants" (as Gilpin would have called them), to be 

 fine lawn trees in miniature, and not young saplings, tn their progress 

 to that state of perfection. The peculiar and park-like appearance, 

 which these give to the lawn (so different from what we have observed, 

 in other instances of removed wood), must, of course, in some degree 

 proceed from a judicious selection in the planter. But we learned, on 

 inquiry, that Sir Henry considers it as mainly owing to a course of 



