SECTION X.

TREATMENT OF THE TREES SUBSEQUENTLY TO REMOVAL.

Singular utility and importance of Afterwork.-I. For Open

Dispositions of Wood. "Shows" the best Covering for Trees.

Levelling and dressing the Surface, p. 275-280.-Defence

against Sheep. Efficient and economical plan delineated in

Plate II. anteh., p. 280-286.-Watering, an indispensable part

of After-work. Water Cart, p. 286-289.-Backwardness in

the growth of Trees. New mode of remedying that evil. Re-

commended for Gardens and Orchards, p. 289–294.-Great

value of the Juices of the Dung-hill as a manure, pp. 294, 295.

-Method of Setting Straight the Trees, in the second and third

year, p. 295-298.-II. Afterwork for Close Woods and Plan-

tations. Great advantage of creating a Superior Climate.

Transferred Woods of Two years' growth, equal to ordinary

plantations of Five-and-forty, p. 298-302.

SECTION XI.

EXPENSE ATTENDING THe foregoing OPERATIONS.

Expense of the Preservative method unfairly exaggerated.

One of its chief objects to lessen the expense, pp. 303, 304.—

I. Examples drawn from my own practice. Expense of Pre-

paration, p. 304-308.—Of Taking-up, Transporting, and Plant-

ing. Example of the cost of transferring a Tree from 15 to 18

feet high. Of another from 25 to 30 feet, p. 308–312.-Ex-

ample of work executed at Allanton House, between 1816 and

1821, delineated in Plate I. (Frontispiece), p. 312-314.-

Another example, in wooding an Entrance-Gate. Description

of the ground, Plate V.-Plan of External Planting recom-

mended, p. 314-319.-Example of wooding Two Acres, as

seen by the Highland Society, pp. 319, 320.-Comparative

b

view of the cost of wooding by means of the Machine, and by the
Common method of Planting, p. 320-324.-II. Examples
drawn from the practice of Others. Expense of Removals, made
by James Smith Esq. of Jordanhill, p. 324-328.-By John
M'Call Esq. of Ibroxhill, p. 328.-By Robert Watson Esq.
Banker in Glasgow, p. 328–331.—By Mr James Hamilton,
Overseer to Sir Charles Lockhart Bart. p. 331-333.-By Wil-
liam Elliot Lockhart Esq. of Cleghorn, M. P., p. 333-336.-
By Sir Walter Scott Bart. of Abbotsford, p. 336-340.-As-
certained Expense of transferring Trees and Underwood, on the
Preservative principle, p. 341.-Greater Labour, and greater
Expense of the Common method. Reduced by the One-Half,
and more, by the Preservative System, &c. P. 340-347.

CONTENTS

OF THE PRINCIPAL

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

SECTION I.

NOTE I. Limited extent of Arboricultural knowledge in

Scotland. Two Anecdotes respecting it, page 353.—Note II.

Importance of an Arboricultural Society. State of the Nursery

business, p. 355.-Note III. Origin of Landscape Gardening.

Fine Prototype furnished by Milton. First places laid out by

Kent, p. 358.-Note IV. Merit of Price, in improving the

Taste of the last century, p. 360.-Note V. Utility of the Art,

in wooding the Open Grounds of a great city. Example of

Edinburgh. Opportunity missed, never to be recalled, p. 361.

SECTION II.

Note III. Landscape Painting unknown to the Antients.

Not a picturesque description in all Homer or Virgil, p. 363.—

Note X. Horticulture introduced into Britain by the Romans,

p. 366.-Note XII. Le Notre, the favourite Garden-Architect

of Lewis XIV. Taste of all Europe (Great Britain excepted)

still influenced by him, p. 367.-Note XIII. Price's Severity

towards Kent and Brown, p. 369.—Note XIV. Anecdote of
Lord Abercorn, p. 369.-Note XV. The Art of Removing
Trees nearly the same, since the days of Nero and Vespasian.
Still a matter of Physical Force, p. 370.-Note XVI. Two
principal Objections to the Mutilating System, p. 371.- Note
XVII. List of Trees and Bushes, transferred by Dr Graham
of Edinburgh, p. 373.-Note XVIII. Landscape Gardening in
Poland. Loudon's curious sketch of Lazenki, and of King
Stanislaus, p. 392.

SECTION III.

Note I. Examination of the question, whether plantations

should be raised from the Seed, or by Removed plants? p.

378. Note II. The Mutilating System reprobated by Miller,

p. 381.-Note III. Speculation on Heat in Trees. Experi-

ments by distinguished Chemists, p. 383.-Note IV. Illustra-

tions of the analogy between Animal and Vegetable life, p. 385.

-Note VI. Examination of the question "Whether Young

Trees and Old possess similar Properties; and whether they

can be removed on similar Principles ?" p. 387.-Note VII.

Curious experiments on Trees, respecting the Protecting and

Non-protecting Properties, p. 390.-Apology for the use of

those terms, p. 392.

SECTION IV.

Note I. Malpighi a native of Bologna. Grew, the father of

English Phytology, p. 393.-Note II. History of the Circula-

tion of the Sap, p. 393.-Note III. Disquisition on Pruning.

-Pontey-Sang.-Ingenious theory by Loudon, p. 396.-

Note IV. Hints for balancing Trees on the Western coast, p.

403.-Note V. Prejudices ancient and modern, respecting the

reversing the position of their Windward and Leeward sides,

p. 405.

CONTENTS OF NOTES.

xxi

SECTION V.

Note I. Illustration of the effects of the Protecting Properties

on Trees. Objections against the Preservative System, p. 408.

SECTION VI.

Note I. Opinions on the best Soils. That at Sheffield Place,

p. 411.-Note III. Improved method of Trenching, p. 413.-

Note IV. Successful method of eradicating Rushes. Value of

land doubled by Deep Trenching, p. 415.

SECTION VII.

Note I. Power of Renovation possessed by Tap-roots, p. 420.

-Note II. Remarks on the present state of Landscape Gar-

dening, p. 422.-Note III. Mr Thomas White. His judicious

purchase of an Estate, and extraordinary Speculation in raising

Wood, p. 424.

SECTION VIII.

method of Compounding

Taking up and Transport-

Note I. Apology for New Words, and for others unusually

applied, p. 427.-Note III. New

Copse-wood, in imitation of Nature.

ing Bushes, p. 429.

SECTION X.

Note I. "Shows," or the Refuse of a Flax-mill, an excellent

Thatch for Houses, p. 432.-Note II. New method of Manu-

ring Orchards, and Fruit-borders, p. 433.-Note III. Useful

5