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CHAPTER XI. 



ACCOUNT OF SIR HENRY STEUART'S METHOD OF 

 GIVING IMMEDIATE EFFECT TO WOOD. 



In improving natural landscape by artificial 

 means, nothing is of greater importance than wood, 

 without which, scenery of every kind is destitute of 

 its principal charm. Hence the slowness with 

 which wood, when treated on the common plan, ge- 

 nerally arrives at maturity, has ever been matter of 

 lamentation and regret to ornamental planters ; and, 

 a great interest consequently attaches to any ex- 

 pedient for producing grown trees in the proper 

 situations, with that degree of celerity which is so 

 desirable in landscape-gardening. The method of 

 transplanting large trees, lately published by Sir 

 Henry Steuart of Allanton, whose operations 

 and improvements in this particular department have 

 been extensive and important, has met with great 

 approbation, and appears to be the best system yet 

 offered to the public, both in a scientific and practi- 

 cal point of view. Sir Henry points out in a clear 



