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NOTICES OF AUTHORS. 



if we could have patience and assiduity to proceed 

 thus systematically ; and if the mice, bu*ds, and other 

 enemies, would " let them be but although this 

 plan, when a braird is obtained, and the tufts 

 cleaned, and seasonably thinned, is probably the 

 best, yet landlords, in general incapable of exertion, 

 but under the excitement of a fresh thought, are so 

 infirm of purpose ; tenm'e of life and property are so 

 precarious ; and trusted ser\^ants, especially when 

 the procedm-e has originated with another, are so 

 liable to be negligent, that om* amateurs ought to 

 gratify then* passion for improvement while it lasts, 

 and proceed at once by purchase of plants, and pit- 

 ting or shtting, which procures them a forest imme- 

 diately palpable to view. There is no doubt, how^- 

 ever, that wooing the soil to kindliness, rearing the 

 infant plant fi:om the germ, and superintending a 

 jprincipio the entire beautiful process of vegetable 

 development, %vill afford a deeper charm to a patient 

 lover of natm'e ; and that the continued solicitude 

 and attentions required during this process acting 

 upon man's parental instinct, \^ili excite an interest 

 hardly to be felt towards a child of adoption. 



A nm-sery gives such facility to the rearing of the 

 plants, that, taking into account the greater chance 

 of failiue by sowing in situ than by planting, the 



