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themselves to the spot, and go in search of their food, 

 without suffering agitation, at a period when an undis- 

 turhed state of the fibres affords the best hope of con- 

 tinued stabiKtj, and therefore the best earnest of success. 

 Thus, what is planted now on this principle gives the 

 Immediate Effect of Wood in the present daj, together 

 with the best prospect of becoming timber, of as great 

 magnitude as the soil and climate will admit, for the suc- 

 ceeding generation. 



That the success of park-wood planted here, on the 

 system in question, has been extraordinary, will be ad- 

 mitted from this fact alone, that although I never prop 

 or support a tree after removal, jet not one has been 

 blown doiun in this parh, in the course of thirty years: 

 and as to deaths, one in from forty to forty-five being 

 the average number^ contingency may in some sort be 

 said to be excluded fi^om an art which has, in all ages, 

 been proverbially unsuccessful and fortuitous. 



As to the taking-up and transporting of trees and 

 underwood for close plantations, the very same directions 

 may be given for them as for park-wood, only that far 

 less care and nicety are necessary in the management of 

 the former, far fewer and shorter roots and branches, and 

 in a word, the possession of the non-protecting, instead of 

 the protecting properties. In respect to underwood for 

 such plantations, as they are wholly out of the reach of 

 sheep and cattle, perhaps something may be done towards 

 giving a greater variety of effect to it than has usually 

 been attempted for ornamental purposes, especially on 

 the sides of walks, approaches, and the hke. 



Underwood or bushes, being thick shrubby plants of 

 low growth, from four to ten feet high, are procured in 

 Yarious ways, but chiefly by selecting such plants as grow .i 



