The planter's guide; : or, A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees and underwood; being an attempt to place the art, and that of general arboriculture, on fixed and phytological principles; interspersed with observations on general planting, and the improvement of real landscape Originally intended for the climate of Scotland. . down from one ageto another, in the face of the most unquestionable experienceof its fallacy* Upon the whole, in considering this fairest, and most beau-tiful of vegetable productions, it is interesting to
The planter's guide; : or, A practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees and underwood; being an attempt to place the art, and that of general arboriculture, on fixed and phytological principles; interspersed with observations on general planting, and the improvement of real landscape Originally intended for the climate of Scotland. . down from one ageto another, in the face of the most unquestionable experienceof its fallacy* Upon the whole, in considering this fairest, and most beau-tiful of vegetable productions, it is interesting to observe thecurious and complicated mechanism, if I may so speak, thatis displayed by nature, in nourishing and bringing it to per-fection, and the intimate connexion which subsists betweenthe most distant parts. In fact, every part of a tree is thecondition of every other part, which continually acts and re-acts. The judicious planter, therefore, will regard the treat-ment to be given to none of these parts with indifference; itbeing clear, that the preservation of all the parts^ in as en-tire and perfect a state as possible, is a matter of first-ratemoment to his He will also sec, that his success mainlydepends on the due regulation of the ^a;^, an da careful y>ro-teciion of the sap-vessels. In the course of the foregoing remarks and illustrations • Note VIII. t Note «^^^ o: ! I :..? -SJ^—, - ^- SiSie? SPECIMEN OF A TREE REMOVED ON THE PRESERVATIVE PRINCIPLE. 137 I have eiicleavouied to show the impoitance of the four mainproperties or prerequisites, which trees should possess to ren-der them fit for removal to exposed situations. 1 liave alsogiven a cursory idea of the nature of the diHTerent organs ofwoody plants, by which those properties are what has been said, the intelligent reader will perceivethat the principle adopted, for a new theory of the art, isfounded on the laws of vegetation, and the researches of themost eminent phytologists
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