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nature has been more bountiful, and whose general cha- 

 racter is more interesting or more romantic 1 



It has been said (and in ordinary cases with justice) of 

 the art of the painter, that it has a marked superiority 

 over that of the designer of real landscape. The for- 

 mer, it is argued, can finish his pictures at pleasure ; 

 whereas the latter must depend, for the completion of his, 

 on the slow progress of time, added to the uncertain 

 effects of both soil and climate. But it clearly appears 

 that the position is disproved here by the extraordinary 

 power of the transplanting machine, the facilities of both 

 artists being thereby placed nearly on an equality in 

 respect to Wood, the principal material in the formation 

 of all landscapes. 



With facts like the above, verified on such high and 

 respectable evidence as that of the Highland Society of 

 Scotland, we may venture to believe that the practice of 

 transplanting, as now improved and raised to the rank 

 of an art, is calculated to become far more generally 

 useful than has hitherto been imagined. And further, it 

 is probable that it will form an important ally to gar- 

 dening in its highest sense, and the most effective engine 

 which the designer has ever yet employed to realise his 

 landscapes. 



