THE planter's GUIDE, 



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that want of power to give immediate effect to wood 

 which, as has been already stated, is a desideratum in the 

 landscape gardener's department, and which the art under 

 consideration is calculated to supply. 



It so happened, about five years since, that a new 

 entrance was made to this place, and a new lodge and 

 gateway erected. It being from a quarter of secondary 

 importance, and other works being on hand at the time, 

 of a more pressing nature, the wooding of the spot was 

 deferred, and the building allowed to stand for four years 

 in the bleak condition just now described. The lodge 

 was placed near the top of a steep bank, overhanging the 

 Calder, which is here an insignificant stream ; and it had 

 no wood of any sort to cover it, excepting four solitary 

 fir-trees, of about sixty years' growth, and at some dis- 

 tance from one another. It is impossible, therefore, that 

 any thing could be more " blank and desolate," or, as the 

 landscape gardeners phrase it, more completely " staring." 

 Being aware that these defects could be at any time 

 remedied, I did not resolve, till the spring of 1826, to do 

 away the reproach of so unmeaning an object. To efi'ect 

 this nothing but wood was wanting, as the ground round 

 the building to some extent was in a favourable state, 

 and had been trenched some time before, and manured to 

 a potato crop. 



The plan of this entrance is peculiar, as may be seen 

 by the view given in plate Y. ; and as it would be impos- 

 sible for any one to apprehend what the transplanting 

 machine has done for it, without a few words of verbal 

 description, an apology will be the less necessary to the 

 reader, for obtruding on him any thing so local and 

 unimportant, which in other circumstances would appear 

 utterly impertinent and extraneous. 



The lodge stands on a gentle swell, somewhat elevated 



