button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.44-45
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only all heretofore hidden beauties, but the most consistent arrangement of the removed trees with those remaining in the woods; and this will be the business of the first season, and must be executed at that period of the winter which will answer best the double purpose of transplanting those trees, and of disposing of such as are to be cut down.
The ensuing summer will shew the result of what has already been attempted, and of what will be proper to be done the following winter; for which purpose the ground must be re-surveyed, and as many of those stately, elegant, and beautiful trees first marked, must be cut down at the proper season, as by their removal will give additional beauty to the whole, and to the parts taken individually.
All the transplanted trees must be such as have grown in a proper depth of soil. Notwithstanding every care
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in their removal some of them may die, in which case they must be succeeded either by others of the same sort, or by plants taken from the nursery.
After cutting, it would be best, particularly where many trees have been removed, to pluck up the remaining stub or tree roots, and plant the whole of that part afresh; and amongst other sorts of trees, with oak, ash, birch, larch, sycamore, and black Italian poplar - but should this mode be generally thought too expensive, it cannot be amiss to examine the roots, and after having removed the unsound ones, to substitute nursery plants in their places.
In prominent situations, grassy banks between groups of trees have a fine effect, and must occasionally be displayed by an eradication of the stub, and wherever it is possible to introduce large surfaces of rock, particularly if it can be combined with wood, this
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