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pleasure-ground in England without water in some ornamental 

 form, where that element is desirable, and this, too, at a very 

 moderate expense. It is astonishing that, in some of the mag- 

 nificent seats in Britain, where hundreds of thousands have 

 been laid out on the house, and where water has been entirely 

 wanting, or in a bad situation, not a shilling has been ex- 

 pended on procuring it artificially. There is no place we 

 know that would gain so much by an artificial lake as Ash- 

 ridge Park, and none more in want of fountains near the 

 house than Eaton Hall ; and yet there is not a glimpse of 

 water in the one case, nor the simplest fountain in the other, 

 notwithstanding the sumptuousness of the palaces at both 

 places, and the immense wealth possessed by their owners. 



Mr. Austin has done much to introduce a better taste in 

 the forms of fountains for garden decoration, of which fig. 129. 

 of Vol. VII., and fig. 42. of Vol. VIII. may be offered as a 

 proof; as fig. 62. may be referred to as a specimen of the 

 ingenuity of Mr. Rowley, who is, like Mr. Austin, Mr. Gray, 

 Mr. Lamb, and Mr. Thorold, every way worthy of patronage. 



Art. XII. Notice of a tietv Method of transplanting large Trees, 

 . invented hy Mr. James Munro, Manager of Messrs. Dickson and 

 TurnbulVs Nursery, Brechin. By the Conductor. 



The first account of this mode appeared in the Quarterly 

 Journal of Agriculture for March last. Immediately on ob- 

 serving the article, we wrote to Mr. Munro for further parti- 

 culars; and, from his letter of March 11th, and the journal 

 referred to, we have drawn up the following notice : — 



During the winter of 1824, having occasion to transplant 

 a number of trees, and being dissatisfied with the mode of 

 preparation by opening a trench round the tree and filling it 

 with loose soil, Mr. Munro selected an oak about 25 years 

 old, large for its years, and prepared it in the following man- 

 ner : — He formed a circular trench round the tree, and dug 

 out the earth ; but, instead of filling the trench with loose 

 mould, he left it empty, and roofed it over with boards, cover- 

 ing over any opening between them with withered grass, and 

 then putting over the whole one inch deep of earth. The tree 

 remained a year in this state, and was transplanted in the winter 

 of 1825. On reducing the ball of earth to proper dimen- 

 sions for removing the tree, the old roots were found furnished 

 with fibres, matted sufficiently to retain enough of earth to 

 protect them during removal. The object which Mr. Munro 

 had in view was, instead of encouraging the growth of fibres 

 at the extremities of the amputated roots, as is done when 



