The Planter's Guide

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: is to be done, are not always sought after, by the active and the wealthy. New sites, therefore, are frequently preferred to improved residences, at which the mansion is yet to be built, the farm to be improved, and the park laid out and planted. All feel the pleasure of contriving their own accommodations, and imagining and composing their own landscapes; and they look forward with delight to the time, when they may witness the full accomplishment of the latter, by the wood arriving at maturity. By the planter himself, however, a gratification so exquisite can hardly be expected; and that discouraging idea cannot fail greatly to damp his enjoyments. To such persons especially, and to all men possessed of land-property, the Immediate Effect of Wood must appear a considerable object, if any method can be devised to obtain it with success and certainty. What, then, would such persons say, were they informed, that so obscure a practice as that of Transplanting could do this; that an entire Park could be thus wooded at once, and forty years of life anticipated ? The fact is, that the possibility of the improvement, and much more have been verified, by pretty extensive experience. Groups and single Trees have been scattered every .where in such a Park at pleasure, in all sorts of soils and exposures, and applied to the composition or the improvement of Real Landscape. Instead oflopping and mutilating the Trees, and sometimes altogether decapitating them (as has been the general practice), the grand point has been gained of preserving their tops entire; so that, with subjects of whatever magnitude, no loss of either spray or branches is suffered; and, what is still more important, no loss of health and vigour in the Trees, excepting for a short period, after having undergone the pr...