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We proceeded next to examine other plantations or masses of wood, 

 consisting of half an acre, a quarter of an acre, and less, in which grove 

 and underwood are massed up together in the same manner. We saw, 

 at some distance, an island in the lake, which is wooded in this way. 

 The ends of the bridge, which is thrown over the water, are likewise 

 so wooded. Also sundry promontories or headlands, in order to break 

 the water into parts, and give immediate effect to some prominent 

 scenery ; an object which they accomplish in a style very picturesque 

 and pleasing. 



We will now proceed to the Third head of our investigation — namely, 

 to ascertain in how far the art is applicable to general purposes of 

 utility or ornament. 



It must be acknowledged, that the art of removing large-sized wood 

 has hitherto been very limited in its application. The planting of a 

 few pollarded, or at least mutilated trees, in a gentleman's lawn or 

 pleasure-grounds, is all that it usually aspires to. In old books on 

 planting, we read of princes and nobles who removed individual trees, 

 which it required twelve oxen to draw, and the most powerful machinery 

 to lift or plant. But these were exertions of mere physical force, un- 

 accompanied with skill or science. It seems to have been reserved for 

 the present day to establish the art upon fixed principles, and to turn 

 it to any thing like practical utility. 



From what has been stated above, it will appear to the Society that, 

 on Sir Henry Steuart's system, a lawn may within a few years be 

 covered with single trees, and scattered groups of every description ; 

 and further, that enclosed masses of wood to any extent, and of such 

 magnitude may be easil}'' introduced into it, as will produce immediate 

 effect, whether to persons on foot or on horseback, and even from the 

 first and second floors of an ordinary mansion house. For agricultural 

 purposes, likewise, the art may prove eminently useful in sheltering 

 grounds which are dedicated to pasture. To cover mountains with 

 wood, to raise extensive forests, or even the broad bounding lines of a 

 gentleman's place or park, the art would for obvious reasons be mis- 

 applied, and therefore, for those purposes, recourse will always be had 

 to the common methods of planting. But we conceive it to be clearly 

 made out, from what Sir Henry has done on a limited scale, (and which 

 may with the same certainty be applied to the most extensive purposes,) 

 that all objects of wooding for picturesque effect, and for making, as it is 

 termed, a place, whether on the foreground, or the middle distance of 

 the landscape, may he effected at once, or at least within a very short 

 period. Thus a man possessing extensive means, and having within a 



