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amounted, according to the candid acknowledgment of the 

 owner himself, to far more than the cost of removing 

 proper subjects in the beginning ! The consequence was, 

 that he was persuaded to replant nearly the whole of his 

 park on better principles, and with trees of from fiye-and- 

 twenty to thirty feet high ; and he lived to see them 

 vigorous plants, productive of picturesque effect in no 

 small degree, with the promise of becoming timber for the 

 succeeding generation. What he most regretted was, not 

 so much the pecuniary loss which he had actually sustained, 

 as the loss of nearly a lifetime in vexation and disap- 

 pointment. 



To the vegetable physiologist, (if any such should be 

 among my readers,) it is almost unnecessary to detail the 

 radical and efficient causes of this species of failure. 

 Every organic creation, whether animal or vegetable, 

 requires during infancy the aid of considerable heat, to 

 enable it to develop its powers and to expand freely. The 

 tenderness, and indeed utter helplessness, of man and other 

 animals, at this early stage of their existence, press more 

 forcibly upon our notice than the case of the vegetable 

 tribe under similar circumstances ; yet both are governed 

 by the same natural laws, and display in their develop- 

 ment a striking analogy. The planter who, without due 

 consideration, sets out a tender plant into the open field, 

 would not rashly so expose a young dog or horse, until, by 

 a proper degree of warmth and care, its constitution were 

 confirmed, and it had acquired strength to resist cold, and 

 other ills and accidents. A certain portion of heat, that 

 is, of shelter, is in the very same way indispensable to trees 

 during infancy, in order that they may grow with freedom, 

 so as that, when their organs are matured, and their strength 

 properly established, they may withstand the elements in 

 open exposures. Hence, to set them out prematurely is 



