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make excellent pollards to transplant, and are most 

 beautiful trees in two or three years j many speci- 

 mens of these are to be seen on this same property, 

 which have also been pointed out as we went along. — 

 See method of transplanting^ ^c. in my Forester's 

 Guide. 



No. XLIIL 



Wood Park, North Side. 



The whole of the old trees, which are for the 

 greater part oak, between the w^aterfall on the river 

 going upwards, about the summer house, and between 



it and Mr. 's house, should all stand. To every 



lover of fine scenery and fine trees nothing on this 

 earth could be more enchantingly delightful. A cer- 

 tain author says, What would heaven be without 

 trees ?" The bank of trees from the waterfall down 

 towards the new Cottage, or March of Bahanna, with 

 the exception of a very small portion of it near Ba- 

 hanna, is growing on land totally unfit for any thing 

 but growing trees ; indeed in the far greater part of 

 it there is scarcely a particle of grass to be seen grow- 

 ing. This bank of wood has been very injudiciously 

 thinned by taking good healthy trees, and leaving 

 the unthrifty, not to mention the shameful cutting 

 by leaving the roots of many of them more than a 

 foot above the ground, as well as many unaccount- 

 able blanks and gaps. The greater part of this bank 

 has been at one time cut over and reared up from 

 natural ^shoots, particularly towards the top of tlie 



