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view of the labour and cost of such work, as it is now 

 carried on in most parts of Britain, I entreat that the 

 mistatement may not be considered as intentional ; and it 

 is, of course, open to the candid correction of those who 

 possess superior information. I have no desire to magnify 

 the merits of my own system at the expense of others, 

 which have so long been held in general esteem. But if 

 the impartial reader will compare it with the simple and 

 rapid, but systematic field -practice, and still more simple 

 machinery, which have been delineated above at so much 

 leng-th, I trust it will not be too much to say that he will 

 find the expense of transplanting to be reduced by the 

 Preseevative method, in any case to the one-half, and 

 in many cases to a third and a fourth part of its present 

 amount. 



Having now, in the course of this Essay, ofibred what 

 appears to me sufficient, respecting both the theory and 

 the practice of this interesting art, to excite the public 

 attention, I shall beg leave to conclude with one remark. 

 The art of giving immediate effect to wood, although, as 

 I should venture to hope, it is now established on Fixed 

 Principles, will be generally cultivated, or utterly 

 neglected, as the revolutions in science or the caprice of 

 fashion may direct. But whatever be its ill fortune as a 

 theory, w^hether it be condemned as fanciful or rejected 

 as useless, I may ventm^e to say that it will not fail of 

 success from the extravagant expense that attends the 

 practice. 



