CONTENTS. 



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SECTION X. 



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Note I. " Shows," or the refuse of flax at the flax-mill, an admi- 

 rable thatch for cottages. Method of preparing and applying it. 

 This covering advisable, wheve roofs are exposed externally to 

 risk from fire. — Note II. New method of manuring orchards 

 and fruit borders, on the principle of the panacean compound, 

 prepared with either dung or lime. Directions for the execution. 

 — Note III. Useful mode of preserving and applying the juices 

 of the dunghill as a manure. Pit with metal pump ; water cart 

 for trees in the park. Peat-moss in this way decomposed 

 eff^ectually. - . . - - 450-454 



SECTION XI. 



Note I. Disquisition on park entrances. Usually dull and unin- 

 teresting things. Plan for their improvement by open wooding, 

 and giving them foreground, consequence, and picturesque 

 effect. Details of the plan; peculiarly adapted to English 

 places. Deserving of being brought into fashion, as it sur- 

 mounts all obstacles, and conceals all deformities, at the least 

 possible expense. View of the entrance-gate to the park at 

 AUanton House, from the west, plate VI. — Note II. Advan- 

 tages of wooding, by means of the transplanting machine, con- 

 siderably underrated. No other method of obtaining a pro- 

 fusion of park-wood, unless by planting the entire surface. — 

 Note III. Further evidence of the great utility of watering, in 

 1826. Success of the f,rst 2/ear alwaya the most important to 

 transplanted wood. _ - » . 455-460 



SECTION XII. 



Note I. Timber trees enumerated. Marshall's arrangement of 

 trees and shrubs. — Note II. The dimensions of the Cowthorpe 

 Oak, the Bentley Oak, and the great Boddington Oak. Wal- 

 lace's Oak in the Torwood, near Stirling. The list of ancient 

 Oaks made by Evelyn, Marsham, and Gilpin, referred to. — 

 Note III. Botanical description of the upright Oak, the 

 spreading Oak, and the mossy-cup Oak. Oaks recommended 

 by Dr Yule and the Horticultural Society to be introduced into 

 plantations in Scotland. — Note IV. Two kinds of Oaks stated 



