THE planter's GUIDE. 



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N.B. — Some labour and expense being obyiously 

 necessary to gTub out the superfluous trees, and reduce 

 them to the number wanted — also to leyel and dress the 

 ground, and restore it to proper pasture — the value of the 

 thinnings of the wood may be allowed to cover those 

 items. 



Thus, then, it appears that, by the ordinary method, 

 you may have a group or plantation consisting of two- 

 and-twenty trees for £151, 16s. 8d. ; and by means of 

 the transplanting machine, for £11. 8s., or nearly the 

 thirteenth part of the money ! I conceive that it 

 would not be easy to give a more complete answer than 

 this comparative statement to those persons who 

 object to transplanting on the score of expense, 

 exclusively altogether of the difference of obtaining the 

 efi'ect of wood, in the one case at once, and of waiting 

 thirty years to obtain it in the other. 



Having now adduced a sufi&cient number of examples 

 from my own experience, it wiU be proper to add some 

 corroboration of them from the experience of others : 

 but it must be the experience or practice of such persons 

 only as have acquired some idea of the principles of 

 the art. It is true many persons, of late years, have 

 professed to follow my system, and have failed in the 

 attempt merely from a want of acquaintance with the 

 principles on which it is founded. This, it is obvious, 

 is a sort of communication which I could make only 

 to particular friends. But it is quite erroneous to 

 suppose that, from superior dexterity alone in my 

 workmen — the consequence of long practice — any thing 

 can be done here that may not, with the same care 

 and attention, be done elsewhere. 



The first person I shall mention is my friend James 

 Smith, Esq. of Jordanhill, in the coxmty of Renfrew, but 



