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more important to provide the best mode of protection 

 in that quarter. 



It was directed in the last section, that on the planting 

 being finished, the coyer of earth at the stem should be 

 from a foot to fourteen inches deep, and at the extremity 

 of the roots from six to eight inches. If by subsidence or 

 the beater, somewhat should be lost of those dimensions, 

 it is now proper to supply them. The next thing to be 

 done is to level and dress the surface, and prepare it for 

 grass-seeds. Supposing the tree to stand, as often 

 happens, upon a mound or hillock forced up by the earth 

 or compost, which has been added to the original soil, the 

 handsomest way of uniting it with the ground is, first to 

 flatten it a little at top, and then to shape the mound in 

 the fashion of the Ogee in architecture, a well-known 

 figure, consisting of a round and a hollow : for it is accor- 

 ding to that pleasing figure, or some modification of it, 

 that the most beautiful and elegant forms in nature, 

 whether animate or inanimate, (for example in the female 

 figure,) are always found to be fashioned : in fact, they 

 are the forms on which every eye delights to dwell, and 

 every artist is studious to introduce into his works. 



In wooding a new, or improving an old place, by means 

 of the transplanting machine, it is to be observed, that on 

 the sides of approaches, or other principal parts of the 

 grounds, where fore-ground trees are scattered with pro- 

 fusion, it is of some importance that these hiUocks should 

 always appear easy and natural swells, which helong to 

 the ground on which they have been superinduced. Above 

 all things, they should be well "tailed out,'' as the work- 

 men call it, beyond the dimensions of the pit, letting their 

 hard outline imperceptibly disappear, and as it were die 

 away in the outline of the adjoining surface. This is a 

 business which good taste suggests, and a good eye will 



