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AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



it is pretty obvious in which of them a knowledge of the principles or 

 planting of any sort is to be found. In parh planting I think it pro- 

 bable that the Professor has no experience : but I venture to predict^ 

 to whichever of the two classes of botanists he may belong, that, should 

 he try the practice, the difficulties attending a successful execution will 

 perhaps surprise him, notwithstanding the light that has been thrown 

 upon it by the present Treatise. 



Before concluding this note, there are twQ circumstances which I 

 think it proper to mention, as connected with the subject. The first is, 

 that it has been alleged, by a very respectable and highly accomplished 

 friend of Dr Graham's and mine, that, in the note on this passage, in 

 the first edition of the book, the Doctor " has not been treated with 

 perfect fairness.'^ This allegation has given me great pain, as there is 

 no man for whom I entertain a greater respect and esteem than him- 

 self. The former note, I acknowledge, was hastily written, and there- 

 fore not so clearly expressed as it might have been. I have, therefore, 

 re-written it as above, and I trust that it will now appear both fair and 

 explicit. 



The second circumstance is, that I understand it has been said, by 

 o-ther friends of the Professor's, that because, in imitation of my method, 

 he did not decapitate or mutilate his forest-trees, according to the 

 general practice in Britain, and all over Europe, his removals at the 

 botanic garden had completely anticipated my system, and deprived it 

 of any originality, which the public, as well as the periodical reviewers, 

 have been pleased to attribute to it. This allegation, I conceive, 

 requires no answer from me. Our respective works, whether literary 

 or arboricultural, will speak for themselves. 



Note XVII. Page 53. 



Mr J. C. Loudon, in his " Encyclopaedia of Gardening,*' one of the most 

 useful and interesting publications of modern times, mentions the 

 remarkable progress which landscape gardening has made in Poland. 

 The first example of it was at Pulawy, the principal seat of the 

 Czartoryski family, on the Vistula, under the superintendence of the 

 Princess Isabella Czartoryski, a lady of distinguished talents and 

 accomplishments, and who had resided long in England. She carried 

 over to Poland, Savage, an English gardener ; and with his assistance, 

 and that of Vogel and Frey, two artists of Warsaw, she had laid out 

 this magnificent place in the last century, and before 1784. In 1801, 

 she published a regular treatise on the style of English gardening, with 

 plates, which greatly contributed to bring the art into fashion among 



