SECTION V. 



FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW THEORY. SELECTION 

 OF SUBJECTS FOR REMOVAL. 



If it be true, as has been observed bj a judicious 

 writer,''^ that the removal of large trees "forms the most 

 difficult part of planting/^ it is certainly not less true 

 that the selection of subjects forms the most difficult part 

 of transplanting. This I have no expectation is to gain 

 general belief with country gentlemen, or even with 

 practical planters of superior intelligence ; because both 

 consider planting merely as a mechanical art, and neither 

 will easily be brought to study it as an object of interest- 

 ing science, or even liberal inquiry. When Demosthenes 

 was asked what he considered as the first quality in an 

 orator, he at once replied, action, according to the very 

 extensive acceptation of that term which prevailed in his 

 day. When questioned as to the second quality, he said, 

 action : and being desired to name the third, he still gav e 

 the same answer. In this emphatic way, I must own, I 

 should be disposed to speak of the selection of subjects, 

 were I to be similarly questioned by the young planter, 

 whether his curiosity were directed to planting in general, 

 or to any particular branch or department of the art ; 

 and I should earnestly recommend this difficult subject t o 

 his patient investigation and his most assiduous study. 

 It is obvious, however, in the department under con- 



* Marshall. 



