Mr Sang’s directions for nursery practice; sowing the different kinds of forest trees in the seed-bed; removing the seedlings to the nursery line, and from thence to the field, . . . 170 Remarks on transplanting, . . . 178 III.—BILLINGTON ON PLANTING, . . . 181 An account of the management of the Royal Forests, . . . ib. Reasons why government should rather purchase than raise timber, and that they should sell off the Royal Forests, . . . 182 The Billingtonian system of pruning, . . . 185 Remarks on planting soils not easily permeable by water, . . . 187 Mr Billington’s directions for planting these soils, . . . 188 ————— ————— for clearing away weeds, and for cutting in or pruning the points of the branches, . . . 189 IV.—FORSYTH ON FRUIT AND FOREST TREES, . . . 192 Mr Forsyth’s surgery of trees, and the value of his composition-salve, . . . ib. Manner in which a tree can be transformed from disease and rottenness to health and soundness, . . . 193 V.—MR WITHERS, . . . 198 Discomfiture of our Scottish Knights by Mr Withers, . . . ib. Account of a number of facts and experiments by the writer, on the comparative strength of quick and slow grown timber—on the influence of circumstance and age in modifying the quality of the timber—on the difference in the quality of different varieties of the same species, and of different parts of the same tree, . . . 199 Oak timber, moderately fast grown, so that it may be of sufficient size, and still retain the toughness of youth, best suited for naval use, . . . 214 Mr Withers, his literary friends and Sir Henry Steuart equally imperfectly acquainted with the subject in dispute between them, . . . 215 The Withers’ system neither necessary nor economically suited for the greater part of Scotland, . . . 217 Fallacy of experiments on the strength of timber, from not taking into account the difference of tension of the different annual layers, and their position, whether flat, perpendicular, &c., . . . 221 VI.—STEUART’S PLANTER’S GUIDE AND SIR WALTER SCOTT’S CRITIQUE, . . . 226 Importance of whatever may serve to amuse the second childhood of the wealthy, . . . 227 The subject—the art of moving about large trees in general, merely a pandering to our wilfulness and impatience, . . . 227 Intolerable dulness of the park and smooth lawn, . . . 228 Delightful sympathies with the objects and varied scenery of our _peopled_ subalpine country, . . . 229 Sir Walter Scott’s curious effort to give consequence to the art of moving about large trees, . . . 231 Paroxysm of admiration of Sir Walter, at Sir Henry’s discoveries, with his hyperbolic figures of comparison, . . . 233 Account of the writer’s practice in moving trees of considerable size, . . . 235