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THE planter's GUIDE. 



The soil being light sand, the groye trees chiefly 

 employed to form this plantation are Beech, Sycamore, 

 Birch, and a few Limes. The copse or underwood con- 

 sists of Oak, Mossy-cup Oak, Beech, Chestnut, Birch, 

 Norway Maple, Holly, Hazel, Mountain-Ash, and Birds- 

 cherry, common and Canadian. Of the gi^oye-wood it is 

 a singular circumstance, that not a tree failed last season, 

 notwithstanding the endurance as well as seyerity of the 

 drought, during a summer truly tropical. Some of the 

 bushes, howeyer, died, and particularly the Holly. 



Another example of a similar sort shall be merely 

 alluded to, as an account of it, much better than any I 

 could giye, is to be found in the Report of the Committee 

 of the Highland Society. It relates to the wooding of 

 two acres of ground in 1819, as a close plantation, in 

 order to giye effect to another part of the same approach. 



It was executed in the space of three months — that is, 

 from February to May — and the entire expense (which I 

 ascertained for the information of the committee) amounted 

 to about £30 per acre ; but some of the groye trees were 

 of large dimensions. Of the sudden and successful forma- 

 tion of this screen, the able committee just now named are 

 pleased to express themselyes in the following terms : — 



" When the extreme beauty of the effects produced is 

 considered, it cannot be thought extrayagant that the 

 plantation of groye and copse-wood, on the two acres 

 already mentioned, should amount (as appears from Sir 

 Henry's memoranda) to about £30 per acre. On the 

 contrary, the committee belieye that no yisible change on 

 the appearance of nature, howeyer triyial in comparison, 

 could haye been effected by the landscape gardener in any 

 other manner under three times the sum.'' 



* See their Report in the Appendix. 



