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obscure a practice as that of transplanting could do 

 this ; that an entire parh could be thus wooded at once, 

 and forty years of life anticipated The fact is that the 

 possibility of the improvement, and much more, haye been 

 verified by pretty extensive experience. Groups and 

 single Trees have been scattered every where in such a 

 park at pleasure, in all sorts of soils and exposures, and 

 applied to the composition or the improvement of real 

 landscape. Instead of lopping and mutilating the Trees, 

 and sometimes altogether decapitating them, (as has been 

 the general practice,) the grand point has been gained of 

 preserving their tops entire; so that, with subjects of 

 whatever magnitude, no loss of either spray or branches 

 is suffered ; and, what is still more important, no loss of 

 health and vigour in the trees, excepting for a short 

 period, after having undergone the process of removal. 



But besides the various combinations and details of 

 the landscape, it has been found also quite practicable to 

 apply the art to the most general purposes of utility and 

 shelter, whether in large towns or in the country,''^ by the 

 transplanting of copse or underwood of any size or species. 

 This is either formed alone into large masses, or it is in- 

 termixed with grove or standard Trees, as circumstances 

 in either situation may require. By these means some of 

 the most interesting objects, both agricultural and orna- 

 mental, have been accomplished, at a very moderate 

 expense, and brought within the reach, not only of the 

 great and opulent, but of any person of limited fortune. — 

 Such is the art which is attempted to be taught in the 

 following pages. 



But the principles on which it is established imply 

 a far wider range, and admit of a far more important 

 application. The art of giving immediate effect to wood 



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