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in the present, as may be proved by the relative progress 

 of trees that have been planted in the one way and in the 

 other. I can speak from repeated experience as to the 

 fact dming the last twenty years, when, from haste or 

 impatience, or other motive, I have been induced to sacri- 

 fice science to convenience, and to work the pits and 

 remove the trees at one and the same time. On one and 

 all of those occasions I felt, as in many other things, that 

 1 was following the worse course, with the better all the 

 while before mj eyes. 



In planting new approaches, in wooding the banks of 

 lakes or rivers, by means of the transplanting machine ; 

 in giving additional woody features to grounds near the 

 mansion-house ; and in a word, wherever numerous groups 

 or scattered trees are wanted for immediate effect, I 

 earnestly recommend this method to be followed. In an 

 approach, for example, fifty or sixty yards broad, or more, 

 as circumstances may require, should be trenched and 

 prepared as above, on each side the carriage-way ; and 

 a similar space on the bank of a lake or river. In any 

 less space there would not be room to group and scatter 

 the trees with a due regard to landscape effect. As to 

 tlie returning of the ground to grass, although the rest 

 of the park be in pasture at the time, it is not a very for- 

 midable task. It may be fenced with hurdles for three 

 months, after being properly dressed, and sown down with 

 grass-seeds, if the space or area of the ground trenched be 

 large ; and if it be trifling, it needs not to be fenced at 

 all where sheep are the stock upon the ground. The 

 superior chance which is by this system given to trees to 

 rise speedily to great timber, and the increased facility to 

 the work of removal, ought to be sufficient inducements to 

 the owner of a place, particularly in new designs, to adopt 

 the system. But when it is considered that the extra 



