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time, are also susceptible of an intelligible result. Of 

 effects both rapidly and cheaply produced, and likewise 

 on a scale of some extent, it would not be easy to give 

 better instances than what are to be found at this place. 

 To state facts, not to excite wonder, is the sole object of 

 the following short detail : and in truth, both the time 

 and the manner in which the objects in question have 

 been accomplished are so well known to many persons 

 that all disguise or concealment on my part were impos- 

 sible, had I any wish to practise arts so disingenuous. 



On turning to the Frontispiece, plate I., the reader 

 will perceive that, in this view of the park, considerable 

 woody effects have been realised, and that they are very 

 favourably seen with water as a foreground. Between 

 the years 1816 and 1821, the former inclusive, the whole 

 of this, whether park trees or copsewood, was executed 

 by means of the transplanting machine, excepting as to 

 the distant and bounding lines of wood, which on the 

 spot are easily distinguishable. Within the above space 

 of time it rarely happened that more than eight or nine 

 workmen were employed, unless for the trenching, which, 

 as has been recommended in section VI., w^as generally 

 done by contract. The months of the year in which 

 transplanting work is performed here are usually four, 

 namely, from January till May. The wages paid to 

 workmen have, for some years, been 9s. and 10s. per 

 week : hence, supposing one week in the month to go off 

 for unfavourable weather, the entire amount would, at the 

 latter rate, be £58, 10s. yearly. This is a considerable 

 sum, no doubt ; although it allows but a small portion of 

 expense for each tree and bush of the many hundreds 

 that have been removed. But it would admit of but few 

 plants indeed, at the rate of ten and fifteen guineas, 

 which folly or ignorance has supposed them to cost. 



