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PART IL 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. The Planters Guide, S^c. (Gard. Mag., Vol. III. p. 460.) 

 By Sir H. Steuart, Bart. LL.D. F.R.S.E. &c. Reviewed by 

 Mr. James Main. 



Sir, 



I AM under considerable obligations to you for having 

 imposed on me the very pleasant and instructive task of 

 reviewing the excellent work lately published by Sir Henry 

 Steuart, Bart., of Allanton House, Lanarkshire. 



As it treats of a particular branch of a business with which 

 we have both been pretty intimately acquainted, I enter on it 

 the more readily, because it will serve to renew former trains 

 of thought, recal laborious exertions, and at a time too when 

 we still can appeal to objects which are the living witnesses of 

 our success, or the worthless marks of our errors. 



The work is every way worthy of the author, and deserves 

 the notice of every planter and landscape-gardener in the 

 kingdom. The subject is illustrated by the researches of the 

 scholar, the sagacity of the philosopher, and the experience of 

 the practical phytologist. Its principal feature is the practi- 

 cability of giving immediate effect to ornamental wood, by the 

 transplantation of large trees. 



This has, you know, always been an object of great interest 

 amongst planters ; and has been attempted with various suc- 

 cess, in all ages. The history of these attempts is faithfully 

 given by Sir Henry. All the practices and opinions of the 

 earliest writers, contained in Grecian and Roman literature, 

 are brought into view; and also all the mighty works of 

 European princes and others, whose attempts have been 

 recorded. Copious notices of what British planters have done 

 in the removal of ^large trees during the last century, and 

 down to our own times, are also presented, with many excel- 

 lent observations. Here, however, notwithstanding diligent 

 and extensive enquiry, Sir Henry has not been apprised of all 

 that has been successfully done in this way ; merely because 

 the practice of removing a few trees, to answer some particular 

 local object, was so common an expedient, that no particular 

 notice was taken, and certainly very seldom recorded, save 



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