On Supporting Newly Planted- Trees. 351' 
Article VI. — On Supporting Newly-Planted Timber Trees, 
By Mr. Stafford, Gardener to Richard Arkwright. 
Esq., Willersley-Castle, near Cromford, Derbyshire. 
Gentlem en, 
Various have been the methods resorted to, for supporting 
newly-planted forest trees, but none that I have ever met with, seem 
to equal the system T am about to explain; all the usual methods have 
proved partly ineffectual, as they have invariably caused either a par- 
tial, or total destruction, of the trees they were intended to preserve. 
To prevent the evils arising from the friction of stakes and bandages, 
many plant their trees so deep, that to avoid destroying them one way, 
they actually doit another; by this improved method, the trees are 
not only freed from that danger, but the unsightliness of stakes, &c., 
about a nobleman's or gentleman's ground is entirely done away, the 
stem appearing as fi'ee from any prop, and yet standing as firm as 
though the tree had been planted fifty years. Nothing can give a 
clearer proof of the utility of this method, than the newly planted trees 
I observed at Chatsworth, which are six times larger than any I ever 
before saw removed; and yet these trees stand as erect, and are as 
completely covered with foliage, as though they had continued there 
many years, — and all this, without the least particle of a support to be 
seen. This, at once, gives the system a decided advantage over 
every other, for what could have looked more objectionable, than to 
have seen them propped up with a parcel of huge stakes, to say no- 
thing of the extra expense and trouble which such stakes and bandages 
Avould cost. The method, I understand, has already been sent mto 
the world as a new one, and I give (he publishers of such a system, 
credit, for so doing. My motive, in writing, is to substantiate what 
they have made known, and to show it as plainly as I can, to your 
numerous readers. 
About twenty years ago, I was employed to remove some trees that 
had been planted and supported in this way, about thirteen years be- 
fore, when I found the wood perfectly sound, and the support as firm 
as ever. For five succeeding years, I was present at the removal 
of great numbers of large trees, which were planted in an open la\^Ti, 
as detached objects ; and I had the satisfaction of seeing every tree 
keep its erect position : nor did I, during the whole five years, ever 
meet with an instance in which the system failed. I made every en- 
quiry as to the origin of so complete a plan, and I found that the 
person employed as manager of the woods, had practised it for upwards 
of thirty years before, at several noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, to 
which he went as an instructor in the art. Whether the invention 
