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per stool. Subjects considerably higher than any of the 

 above I sometimes remove ; but I place much greater 

 value on a splendid and extensive top, for eifect in park- 

 wood, than on mere length of stem, unless for particular 

 purposes. As to the rates stated, I believe there are few 

 planters, who have seen my trees, that would not consider 

 them as cheaply procured at three and four times the 

 amount. 



It was held out, in the commencement of the present 

 section, that, by means of the new system attempted to 

 be established, not only the exercise of the art would be 

 brought within the Kmits of a moderate expenditure, but 

 that the cost of both its present and former practice 

 would be greatly reduced. It therefore becomes neces- 

 sary, in conclusion, to show that the assertion, how bold 

 soever it may seem, is not unfounded ; and this, I appre- 

 hend, will be best done by saying a few words on the 

 labour and expense bestowed on the removal of wood, in 

 both divisions of the island, at the present moment. 



Whatever of transplanting is known in Scotland has 

 undeniably been derived from our English neighbours, to 

 whose superior intelligence, and earlier cultivation, we 

 owe the rapid advancement we have of late made in the 

 arts. He who does not feel and frankly acknowledge this 

 is an uncandid Scotchman, rather than a generous de- 

 scendant of the men who, though they rivalled in arms 

 their more ingenious opponents, boasted no competition 

 with them in either sciences or arts. 



In giving a history of the art which is the subject of 

 these pages, it was stated in section II. that Robertson, 

 the well-known landscape gardener, (who was sent down 

 by Brown, more than seventy years since, to lay out the 

 park at Duddingston for the then Earl of Abercorn,) was 

 the first who taught us to give immediate effect to wood, 



