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peaty loam is a desirable soil for training various trees, 

 such as the Oak, the Beech, and the Birch, as it gives 

 great facilities both in the preparing and taking up. 

 Woody glades, or small forest lawns, left open in the 

 original planting of a place, are likewise most commo- 

 dious as sites for nursery-ground. But to find woods or 

 plantations so trained for a series of years, to wide dis- 

 tances, is extremely rare, although valuable when they are 

 found. I know but one example in this part of the 

 country, to the extent of from fifteen to twenty acres, 

 but there may easily be others that have escaped my 

 notice. A department, however, of the woodland of a 

 place of the age just now mentioned, retired from the 

 view, but little sheltered by surrounding objects, is the 

 most favourable situation both for the convenience and 

 the efficiency of the nursery. 



I once more entreat the forgiveness of the reader for 

 here obtruding some further account of my own practice. 

 But should he have any extent of grounds to be planted 

 for immediate efi'ect, and fortunately possess, as I do, a 

 remnant of the old belt of Brown and his followers, or 

 what would be still more valuable, any of the circular or 

 oval clumps of that celebrated artist, which have suffered 

 so much obloquy, he may rely upon it that he is pos- 

 sessed of a treasure which cannot be too highly prized 

 for the purpose in question. With his permission, then, I 

 will beg leave to give a cursory idea of my own trans- 

 planting nurseries, and of the superior materials out of 

 which they were formed. 



About forty years since, when the style of Brown was 

 in high fashion and repute, this place was modernised and 

 laid out by an eminent landscape gardener, well known in 

 Scotland, namely, Mr Thomas White, one of the most 

 ingenious of his pupils. With a better education than 



