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size, (he added,) if his principles were only followed out, that was a 

 mere matter of expenditure ; because one tree could be removed just as 

 well as another, provided that the owner did not grudge the cost^ To 

 the praise, then, of the most perfect success we consider his exertions as 

 fully entitled. 



Our attention was next turned to some single trees of the Sycamore, 

 Horse-chestnut, and Beech species, which had been transplanted dur- 

 ing the first week of April in the present year, so that they had stood 

 about six months in the ground at the time of our inspection. The 

 height, which, as we were informed, had been accurately taken at the 

 time of their removal, is variously from twenty-eight to thirty-three 

 feet, and the girth, which we caused to be measured by two of Sir 

 Henry's servants, is two and a half and three feet, at eighteen inches 

 from the ground. These trees were entirely in leaf, Vv'hen we examined 

 them, and their foliage was of a healthy and deep green colour. Their 

 branches were quite entire, and they stood firm and erect, without prop 

 or support. The only difference that the most accurate eye could dis- 

 cover, between these trees and others long since planted, seemed to be, 

 that their leaves were somewhat smaller — a distinction which, as we 

 observed in other instances, usually disappears after the first, but always 

 after the second season. 



In viewing these specimens of an art, of the power of which we had 

 formed no adequate conception, the following facts and circumstances 

 particularly struck us, respecting the single and detached trees. We 

 will, therefore, concisely state them, as worthy of the notice of the 

 Society. 



First, the singular beauty and symmetry of the trees ; the uncommon 

 girth of their stems in proportion to their height ; and the complete 

 formation of their branches and spreading tops. In fact they appear, 

 instead of " stripling plants " (as Gilpin would have called them,) to be 

 fine laum trees in miniature, and not young saplings in their progress to 

 that state of perfection. The peculiar and park-like appearance which 

 these give to the lawn (so different from what we have observed in other 

 instances of removed wood) must, of course, in son\e degree proceed 

 from a judicious selection in the planter. But we learned, on inquiry, 

 that Sir Henry considers it as mainly owing to a course of previous 

 training in pretty open exposures, or in what he appropriately calls his 

 "transplanting nurseries," or otherwise, in plantations thinned out for 

 the purpose to wide distances. 



The second thing we shall mention is the surprising health and 

 vigour of the trees, considering the exposures in which they are placed, 

 and the complete and perfect preservation of their branches, not with- 



