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France. Taste in gardening all over Europe still swayed by it, 

 Great Britain excepted. — Note XIII. High literary character 

 and controversial powers of Sir Uvedale Price. His severity 

 towards Brown and Kent probably carried too far. — Note XIV. 

 Anecdote of the late Earl of Abercorn. — Note XVI. Horticul- 

 tural achievement of Dr Graham of Edinburgh. Trees and 

 bushes removed by him. — His success greater with exotics than 

 with park wood. Radical difference between horticultural 

 transplanting, and transplanting in the open park. Idea of his 

 having anticipated the preservative system unfounded. — Note 

 XVII. English gardening carried to Poland. Princess Czar- 

 toryski's meritorious treatise on the art. — Loudon's curious 

 picture of Polish manners, and of a royal park, during the reign 

 of Stanislaus. ----- 379-390 



SECTION III. 



Note I. Examination of the question, "Whether plantations 

 should be raised from the seed, or by means of removed plants?" 

 Marshall's specious method of settling it.— Miller, Evelyn, 

 Emmerick, Speechly, Nicol, Sang, Pontey, variously advo- 

 cate the question — Dr Yule's opinion in favour of sowing. 

 Sentiments of the author of the Encyclopedia of Agriculture. 

 Decisive experiments by Forsyth. Summing up of the argu- 

 ment in favour of planting. — Note II, The mutilating system 

 strongly reprobated by Miller. Incontrovertible arguments 

 against it, from both theory and practice. — Note IV. Specula- 

 tion on heat in trees. Experiments of distinguished chemists — 

 Riichert, Senebier, Woodward, Schoppett, Ingenhoutz. Ther- 

 mometers kept in trees by John Hunter. — Note V. Illustra- 

 tions of the analogy between animal and vegetable life, in the 

 effects of heat and cold. Coach or race horse within doors and 

 without ; Musk ox of Melville Island ; Kamtschatka Mammoth ; 

 Elephant ; African Negro. Trees under the torrid zone. — 

 Note VII. Examination of the opinion of English planters, that 

 " Old trees and young possess similar properties ; therefore, they 

 should be removed on similar principles." Marshall, author of 

 the Encyclopedia of Agriculture, His general practical rule 

 irreconcilable with good science. — Conclusive experiments by 

 Miller. — Note VIII. Curious examples of trees laying aside, 

 and reacquiring, the protecting and non-protecting properties. The 

 former always more slowly acquired than the latter. - 891-402 



