THE planter's GUIDE. 



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contemplate so important and extensive an application of 

 the principles about to be laid down in this Essay. 

 Neither was it in the contemplation of the Committee 

 of the Highland Society, or General Society for the 

 Encouragement of the Arts in this kingdom, which some 

 years since examined my Woods, because their attention 

 was turned merely to the facts before them. The able 

 Report at that time drawn up (and which will be found 

 in the Appendix,) relates solely to mj practice; and they 

 knew that it was deduced from experience, and from 

 observations made on woods for more than forty years. 

 Yet it is with both pride and pleasure that I appeal to 

 this Report for the correctness of the statement above 

 given, of the powerful effects which the art in question 

 is capable of producing ; a statement that otherwise 

 might appear unfounded in its facts as well as extrava- 

 gant in its pretensions. In the Committee will be seen 

 names of the first class in the rank, literature, and general 

 intelligence of the country ; and the Report itself is 

 drawn up by the individual the most highly gifted and 

 distinguished of those persons, who is himself well 

 acquainted with the subject of wood. '''^ 



At the place from which these pages are dated, they 

 found a park of limited extent, and possessing no parti- 

 cular claim to beauty, but visited from curiosity by many 

 persons within the last ten years. It consists of about a 

 hundred and twenty English acres, abundantly clothed 

 with trees and underwood of every common species, by 

 means of the transplanting machine ; and exhibiting 

 within itself a practical illustration of every principle 

 laid down, and every theory put forth, in this Essay. 

 The single trees and bushes, in groups and open dis- 

 positions, amount to about seven hundred in number, 



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