steuakt's planter's guide. 



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at the absurdity of his hyperboHc figures of compari- 

 son, with steam, and gas, and scenic transformation, 

 which throw such ridicule upon his excellent friend. 



We beheve that Sir Henry Steuart has been as 

 successftd as many others of his countrymen in trans- 

 planting grown trees. We have had some little 

 practice ourselves in this art, but which, had it not 

 been for Sir Henry's discoveries^ we should not have 

 thought of obtruding on the notice of the public. 

 The house we occupied was covered to the south and 

 west by part of an old orchard of apple and pear 

 trees, which excluded the drying south-western 

 breeze, so necessary in a low damp situation. We 

 transplanted nearly an acre of these, certainly with 

 more success and economy than could have been ef- 

 fected by Sir Henry's practice, the soil being so te- 

 nacious, that it was impossible to remove the earth 

 from the roots without fracturing all the smaller 

 fibres. The soil, an adhesive brown Carse clay, con- 

 tained a good deal of vegetable matter, to the depth 

 of about 15 inches, when the subsoil, a close hard 

 yellow clay commenced, into which very few of the 

 roots penetrated. This ground had been long under 

 grass, and the upper soil was much bound together 

 by the grass and tree roots. Under these circum- 

 stances we adopted the following plan :■ — 



