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reasonable distance the command of a stock of trees fit for removal, 

 may, in some sort, create what it used to take a lifetime, and sometimes 

 two lives, to obtain — namely, a park richly clothed and sheltered ; and 

 thus, the superlative luxury of well-grown woods, which was supposed 

 unattainable unless by the slow effects of time, is brought within the 

 reach of science and industry. 



In proof of this, we will take the liberty of adducing one other 

 example of what we saw at this place, the more particularly, as it is a 

 striking evidence of the superiority in every way of transplanting over 

 common woods, as the former are managed here. This illustration of 

 the fact appeared likewise to us the more satisfactory, that it was given 

 in a comparative way, and of which, therefore, we were fully enabled to 

 judge. 



At the western entrance gate to the park, two plantations or masses 

 of wood present themselves to the view, within about forty yards 

 of each other — the one on the right hand, and the other on the left ; 

 and they run nearly parallel to the approach or coach-road, for some 

 length of way. That on the left-hand side, as Sir Henry informed us, 

 had been planted about five-and thirty years since in the ordinary 

 manner. Nearly twelve years ago, the Fir trees and Larch had been 

 cut away ; and some time after, a certain proportion of the forest trees 

 had been cut over, or copsed, in order to improve the closeness of the 

 screen at bottom. The plantation on the right-hand side is intended to 

 cover the main head of the lake. It was executed with grove trees and 

 underwood, in the style above described ; and it was transplanted to its 

 present site six years ago. On comparing these two plantations, the 

 obvious superiority of the latter over the former was manifest to every 

 eye. Its luxuriance, its strength, its closeness, were superior ; and it 

 seemed clearly more effective for every purpose of either ornament or 

 utility. In this contrast, the triumph of the transplanting art appeared 

 complete, and its fitness for the general purposes of shelter or land- 

 scape seemed, in our judgment, very satisfactorily established. 



The committee, having thus given their personal evidence to the 

 complete success of Sir Henry Steuart's plan, will now proceed, agree- 

 ably to the Society's recommendation, to notice the two points specially 

 recommended to their observation : — 1st, The number of trees which 

 may have decayed after removal ; and, 2dly, the expense of the opera- 

 tion. 



On the first point, your committee are enabled to state with con- 

 fidence, that the number of trees which decay after having been trans- 

 planted, must be very small indeed. They had this point particularly 

 in their eye ; and, in traversing the whole of the grounds, they saw 



