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and I believe it now passes with many under the name 

 of my method, to the prejudice of the ingenious inventor. 



In a few years after the above period, Robertson was 

 invited to Ireland under high and distinguished patron- 

 age, viz., that of the Duke of Leinster, Mr OonoUy, Mr 

 Hayes of the Royal Irish Academy, and other persons of 

 taste and fortune, leaving his business to be managed by 

 his nephew George, and James Ramsay, one of the most 

 promising of his pupils. Here also Robertson introduced 

 the practice of removing large trees, which, under his new 

 employers, appears to have come considerably into fashion. 

 The machine of Brown was of course carried over with 

 him to Ireland ; and Mr Hayes, in his meritorious tract 

 on planting and the management of woods, gives an 

 account of the implement, and the style of working it as 

 then taught, which entirely coincides with that above 

 described. Brown's vigorous and short-hand method of 

 tearing up the trees by the roots, and rapidly conveying 

 them to their new destinations, captivated the lively 

 fancy of the Irish planters. Mr Hayes is loud in its 

 praise, and decidedly prefers the compendious process of 

 the " Scottish engineer" to the more elaborate prepara- 

 tions and tedious contrivances of Evelyn and Fitzharding.'" 

 Thus it happened, oddly enough, that the Scotch, who 

 themselves knew nothing of transplanting, should give 

 notable lessons in the art, and have the honour of intro- 

 ducing it to notice and'popularity in the sister kingdom, — 



" Qui sibi semitam non sapiunt, alteri monstrant viam." 



From this time, however, it appears that it has made no 

 advances among the Irish, as Walker, and others of their 

 late writers, pass over the subject without notice. 



* Practical Treatise on Planting, p. 41, &c. 



