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the time of removal, attended ^vith such advantage in giving stability to 

 the tree, that, when it is placed in its new situation, and before any 

 earth has been laid on the roots, a very considerable force may be 

 applied, without throwing it down or displacing it. But Sir Henry 

 further informed us, that roots of great number and length (sometimes 

 to the extent of twelve and fourteen feet of a side) were also employed 

 to secure the larger trees, when set out single, in exposed situations. 



Considering the season of the year at which our inspection took 

 place, (although unquestionably the best for witnessing the effects of 

 this interesting art,) the Society will, of course, not look for any 

 account, from our own knowledge, of the mode of execution. We may 

 venture, however, to state from what we saw, that the unexampled suc- 

 cess with single trees, necessaril}' the most difficult object, must imply 

 methods not less new than scientific. 



Respecting the management of this department, we were informed in 

 general, that the greatest attention is constantly paid to the previous 

 cultivation of the soil, by meliorating and stirring it to the depth of 

 eighteen inches or two feet, and to some little distance round the spot' 

 on which the tree is to be planted. That for this purpose, no pure 

 animal manure is ever used; but solel}- composts of different sorts, made 

 up with dung, or a small quantity of lime ; and that better effects are 

 found to be produced, towards this primary and grand object, by the 

 intermixture of soils of different qualities (for which the amplest 

 opportunity is here afforded) than by any other given method. That 

 for the rest, new modes have been discovered by experience, of training 

 and preparing both the stems and branches of the tree ; for multiplying 

 and taking up its roots ; and lastly, for removing it to its new situa- 

 tion. But that which has contributed as much as anj'' thing else to the 

 success we had witnessed, is a careful and judicious adaptation of each 

 particular species to that soil and situation in which it is best calcu- 

 lated to succeed. 



Next, as to the Second Branch of our investigation — namely, close or 

 enclosed clumps or masses of wood. These are usually intended for the 

 purpose of concealing such objects as require concealment — as accom- 

 paniments to the water, the approaches, or the like. They appear in 

 considerable variety in this park, and are contrasted in a pleasing man- 

 ner with the single trees and open groups above described. There is 

 one large mass of wood, of about two acres in extent, through which 

 the eastern approach to the place passes. That plantation we will 

 endeavour shortly to describe, both as showing the taste and skill with 

 which the park is laid out, and the general and extensive uses to which 

 the art in question may be applied, in similar situations. 



