CONTENTS. 



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the dunghill. — Causes of backwardness a subject of great in- 

 terest to the general planter. Five causes that may probably 

 contribute to it. Remarkable, that nearly all of them bear 

 reference to the first year after removal. — Method of setting 

 straight trees in the second and third season. Propping or sup- 

 porting them quite unhnown in the preservative system, — II. After- 

 work for close woods and plantations. Immense advantage of 

 creating a superior climate. — Other details of management. 

 Transferred woods after two years equal to ordinary plantations 

 of five-and-forty. In the park at AUanton, the removed woods 

 decidedly the most healthy and vigorous. - - 225-253. 



SECTION XI. 



EXPENSE ATTENDING THE FOREGOING OPERATIONS. 



Expense of the preservative method unfairly exaggerated. One 

 of its chief objects to lessen the expense. — I. Examples drawn 

 from my own practice. Expense of preparation in various 

 ways. — Of taking up, transporting, and planting. Example 

 of the cost of transferring a tree from fifteen to eighteen feet 

 high. Of another from twenty-five to thirty feet. — Example 

 of work executed at AUanton House, between 1816 and 

 1821, delineated in plate I. — Another example in wooding an 

 entrance-gate. Description of the ground, plate V. New plan of 

 external planting recommended, so as to produce picturesque 

 effect in park-entrances. — Example of wooding two acres, as 

 seen by the Highland Society. — Comparative view of the cost of 

 wooding a promontory, by means of the machine, and by the 

 common method of planting. — II. Examples drawn from the 

 practice of others. Expense of removals made by James Smith, 

 Esq., of Jordan-hill.— By John M^Call, Esq., of IbroxhilL— By 

 Robert Watson, Esq., banker in Glasgow. — By Mr James 

 Hamilton, overseer to Sir Charles Lockhart, Bart. — By 

 William Elliott Lockhart, Esq., of Cleghorn, M.P.— By Sir 

 Walter Scott, Bart., of Abbotsford. — Ascertained expense of 

 transferring trees and underwood, on the preservative principle, 

 at AUanton House. — Planting, together with the other Arts, 

 undeniably derived from the South. — Art of removal in both 

 countries still a matter of physical force, and needless labour. — 

 Cursory delineation of the English method. Expense reduced 



