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pastures. But let the landowner not cut down the hol- 

 lies in hedgerows which border the waysides, and let 

 anyone plant a few boxes (which no cattle will touch), 

 and stick a red beech, or a Deodara, here and there 

 amid protecting brambles. Gentle hands might dibble 

 in plants of this sort near our villages, whose beauty 

 might appropriate to the young and the landless miles 

 of wayside garden ground. If this system were pursued 

 through our beautiful island, what a garden of Eden we 

 should make of it. And if in the attempt we occasion- 

 ally get a blow from the ruthless or the thoughtless, is 

 this different from our usual experience every day, 

 every where, in every thing ? 



Concluding I coucludc by rccommcnding the practice of trans- 

 remarks. 



planting with the ball of earth, without reference to the 

 theories with which it has been supported. Indeed, 

 with regard to them, I do not beheve that in all vege- 

 table physiology or agricultural chemistry there is one 

 principle to be depended on. In fact, agricultural 

 chemistry is a new hght to us, for the first glimmerings 

 of which we are indebted to our immortal Davy. I say 

 this with the deepest veneration for the brilliant talents 

 and undaunted perseverance of those who have devoted 

 themselves, or who still do devote themselves, to 

 sciences of the first importance to the existence of man 

 and the honour of his Creator ; and with a heartfelt 

 disgust at those who, pluming themselves on their pro- 

 gress in lower but more certain science, presume to 



