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the proper time for the operation, when a week or two 

 of fine weather usually occur in this ever variable 

 climate. Of the Beeches which I have removed at this 

 season, had the leaves immediately dropped off, I should 

 not have been discouraged ; but it is singular, that in 

 every instance they adhered in spite of the severity of 

 the process, and that the discoloration followed in the 

 ordinary manner. This method has not as yet been tried 

 on any extensive scale, or on subjects of great magnitude ; 

 but it promises to remedy the most striking defect of this 

 desirable tree, and to place it upon a footing with others 

 possessing the greatest facilities of removal. 



Before taking leave of the Beech, it may be proper to 

 notice a striking circumstance respecting the early and late 

 kinds, in as far as hardiness, and of course facility of 

 transplanting, is concerned. In the course of this review 

 of the four principal forest trees, we have seen that such 

 varieties exist in three of them — namely, the Oak, the Elm, 

 and the Beech ; and we shall find in the sequel, that 

 they equally exist in the Sycamore, the Maple, and some 

 others. In one and all of these, except perhaps the Elm, 

 experience has taught us that the latest hinds always 

 transplant the best, and that in fact lateness and hardiness 

 are nearly convertible terms in respect to the whole of 

 them. It is, no doubt, to be regretted, that, as in the 

 instance of the Beech and the Sycamore, the greatest 

 hardiness and the greatest picturesque beauty do not go 

 together, which is the case with the Oak and the Ash. 

 But a planter of skill will duly weigh and provide against 

 those characteristic peculiarities in the former ; and accord- 

 ing to the kinds wanted, or the effects to be produced 

 in his landscape, he will endeavour to compensate for 

 what nature has denied, by science and industry. 



