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grounds, wliicli arc iledicalfHl to pasture. To covor mountains with 

 wood, to raise extensive forests, or even the hroad hounding; hues of a 

 gentleman's place or park, the art would for obvious reasons he misap- 

 plied, and therefore, for those purposes, recourse will always be had to 

 the common methods of planting. But wo conceive it to be clearly 

 made out, from what Sir Henry has done on a limited scale (and which 

 may with the same certainty be applied to the most extensive purposes,) 

 that all objects of toooding for piciurcsqiic effect, and for making, as it 

 is termed, a place, whether on the foreground, or the middle distance of 

 the landscape, may he effected at once, or at least within a very short 

 period. Thus a man possessing extensive means, and having within a 

 reasonable distance the command of a stock of trees fit for removal, 

 may, in some sort, create what it used to take a lifetime, and sometimes 

 two lives to obtain, namely, a park richly clothed and sheltered ; and 

 thus, the superlative luxury of well-grown woods, which was supposed 

 unattainable unless by the slow effects of time, is brought within the 

 reach of science and industry. 



In proof of this, we will take the liberty of adducing one other ex- 

 ample of what we saw at this place, the more particularly, as it is a 

 striking evidence of the superiority in every way of transplanted over 

 common woods, as the former are managed here. This illustration of 

 the fact appeared likewise to us the more satislactory, that it was given 

 in a comparative way, and of which, therefore, we were fully enabled 

 to judge. 



At the western entrance-gale to the park, two plantations or masses 

 of wood present themselves to the view, within about forty yards of 

 each other, the one on the right hand, and the other on the left, and 

 they run nearly parallel to the approach or coach-road, for some length 

 of w^ay. That on the left-hand side, as Sir Henry informed us, had 

 been planted about five-and-thirty years since, in the ordinaiy manner. 

 Nearly twelve years ago, the fir trees and larch had been cut away ; and 

 some time after, a certain proportion of the forest trees had been cut 

 over, or copsed, in order to improve the closeness of the skreen at bot- 

 tom. The plantation on the right-hand side is intended to cover the 

 main head of the lake. It was executed with grove trees and under- 

 wood, in the style above described ; and it was transplanted to its present 

 site six years ago. On comparing these two plantations, the obvious 

 superiority of the latter over the former was manifest to eveiy eye. Its 

 luxuriance, its strength, its closeness, were superior ; and it seemed 

 clearly more effective, for eveiy purpose of either ornament or utility. 

 In this contrast, the triumph of the transplanting art appeared complete, 



