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improYements wliicli experience has suggested, and wliicli 

 are detailed in the notes referring to the above passages. 



In respect to close-woods it is to be observed, that the 

 expense of removing the trees which compose them, if of 

 the heights just now mentioned, is necessarily much less 

 than the cost of such as would suit the open park. The 

 former possess the non-protecting properties, especially 

 small tops, and correlative roots ; hence they are far 

 more easily transferred than the others. For close-woods, 

 for obvious reasons, subjects will always be chosen that 

 are endued with the non-protecting properties ; and 

 therefore the expense of removing them half a mile, as 

 already mentioned, does not exceed 3s. 6d. each for the 

 standard or grove trees, and from Is. to 2s. per stool for 

 the underwood. 



The rates thus specified for woods of all sorts are given 

 with great care, as the result of many years' experience. 

 If planters could be persuaded to confine themselves, at 

 least in their earlier essays, to subjects of moderate dimen- 

 sions, such as are from five-and-twenty to thirty feet in 

 height, but of some stoutness, (that is, from a foot to four- 

 teen inches in diameter — and these are quite sufficient for 

 immediate effect and picturesque beauty,) they might 

 confidently rely on the power of the art amply to gratify 

 their wishes at a very moderate cost. It is the ambition 

 of undertakings beyond the accomplishment of any man 

 without extraordinary skill, and without machinery far 

 surpassing in magnitude and expense what is generally 

 constructed, that misleads and discourages many, and 

 prevents those habits of accurate observation and patient 

 industry without which no art, useful or ornamental, ever 

 yet was carried to any degree of excellence. 



I will now proceed to give a few examples of work 

 executed solely by day labour, which, on an estimate of 



