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vSociety will soon be enabled to make more generally kno^vn the details 

 of Sir Henry Steuart's practice." So far Mr. Laing Meason. 



The process of Transplanting is beautifully simple. The tree having 

 been well selected, w hich is a point requiring much skill and judgment 

 (for both its stem and branches must be well prepared to resist the 

 elements, and be duly proportioned to each other), undergoes the ope- 

 ration described by Mr. Laing Meason, of having its roots cut, and is, 

 by the second or third year after, transported to its new situation, by a 

 very simple engine, called the Transplanting Machine. In detailing this 

 process, the committee had particular occasion to remark the openness, 

 patience, and candour, with which Sir Henry solved every doubt, and 

 replied to every question, which the details suggested. And, in gene- 

 ral, tlie committee have no hesitation to say, that the operation is attend- 

 ed with no difficulty, which may not soon be overcome by attention and 

 experience. They thought it best, however, not to attempt to describe 

 with minuteness that which they had not seen in practice, having little 

 doubt, that they may prevail on Sir Henry himself to afford these details 

 in the form of an Appendix to this Report. 



Upon the whole, it is humbly their opinion, that Sir Henry, by philo- 

 sophical attention to the nature of the change, to which he was about 

 to subject the trees which he has transplanted, has attained, at no extra- 

 vagant expense, the power so long desired of anticipating the slow prO' 

 gress of vegetation, and accomplishing, within two or three seasons, those 

 desirable changes on the face of nature, which he who plants in early 

 youth can, in ordinary cases, only hope to witness in advanced life. 

 Signed, by order of the Committee, 



Alex. Young. 



THE END. 



