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PEEFACE. 



landscape, originally intended for the climate 

 of Scotland." The present title sufficiently 

 describes the object of the Treatise, and is 

 more nearly assimilated, as we learn from Sir 

 Henry's correspondence, to what the Author 

 originally designed. It has been deemed pro- 

 per, however, to insert the full title in this 

 prefatory notice. 



A short Memoir has further been drawn up, 

 and an engraving of the Author, lately taken 

 from an admirable painting by Sir Henry Rae- 

 burn at AUanton, has also been prefixed to this 

 work. Upon the whole, it is hoped that, as 

 every effort has been made to render this 

 edition as complete as possible, it will secure 

 the same approbation and success which have 

 attended those by which it was preceded. 



R. 



Note. — In proof of the success which has attended Sir 

 Henry's system of transplanting, it may be proper to state, 

 that all the forest trees, of which we may specify the Oak, 

 Lime, Elm, and Ash, which have been transplanted about 

 a quarter of a century in the park at Allanton, are now 

 sending forth vigorous shoots from twelve to eighteen 

 inches yearly, as measured in March 1848, and the stems 

 are increasing proportionably. These trees exhibit not 

 only every symptom of health, but are yearly improving 

 in vigour and growth. 



