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MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. 



the success of Sir Henry's system, wliicli lie had adopted 

 in the park, and other parts of the domain at Wortlej. 

 A correspondent of the late Mr Elliot Lockhart mentions 

 also, in a letter dated April 1828, which was transmitted 

 to Sir Henry, that he had acted on the principles of the 

 "Plaoter's Guide" under the direction of one of Sir Henry's 

 people with entire success. " 1 think," he concludes, "my 

 gardener, who was in attendance both days, will now be 

 quite up to the process. I am sure," he adds, "Sir Henry 

 must be highly flattered with the reyiew of his book, and 

 the eulogy on his operations, contained in the last Quar- 

 terly Review." From numerous other quarters, similar 

 attestations were received of the value of Sir Henry's 

 work, which, as we have already mentioned, our limits for- 

 bid us to insert. 



We have alluded above, to the employment of one of 

 Sir Henry's people by Mr Elliot Lockhart's correspondent ; 

 and we would now fm^ther remai'k that several of his 

 workmen, and others who had been long trained in his 

 service in transplanting at AUanton, were permitted by 

 Sir Henry to visit various parts of England and Ireland, 

 for the purpose of showing more efficiently the practical 

 working of the system.'" The following letter from C. W. 



H n, Esq. on the return of some of Sir Henry's people 



from Ireland, may properly be here inserted, as both show- 

 ing how beneficial their services had proved in that country, 

 and as illustrative of a favourite project of Sir Henry's, 

 to which we shall presently advert. 



* Among the places to wliicli Sir Henry's men had been sent in Ireland, were 

 the following : — The seats of Mr Shaw, the Recorder of Dublin — Lord de 

 Vesci, Queen's Coimty — Lord Duncannon, Kilkenny — Colonel Bruin, comity 

 Carlow — The Bishop of Clogher — and Marquis of Sligo. Li Scotland, Sn- David 

 Bahd, of Newbeith — The seat of the Honourable Douglas Gordon, Halhburton 

 — Captain Barclay of Uiy — Mr Pringle of the Haining — and Mr Stirling of 

 Keir. 



