Taste of Sir Walter Scott for “home-keeping squires,” practisers of the Allanton system, . . . 245 What a British gentleman should be, . . . 246 The Allanton practice described, . . . 249 Quotation from Sir Henry Steuart’s volume, in which the philosophy of his practice is described, . . . 254 Summary of Sir Henry’s discoveries, . . . 264 Consideration of the accuracy of some of Sir Henry’s assertions regarding the desiccated epidermis of trees, and the elongation of the shoots of plants, . . . 265 Sir Henry’s assertion that quick-grown timber is inferior to slow-grown, and that culture necessarily renders it softer, less solid, and less durable, not correct, . . . 282 The present climate of Scotland, and of the Orkneys and Shetlands, inferior to a former, . . . 287 That this may have been owing to these islands having once been a portion of the continent, . . . 288 The recent advance and recession of the German Ocean, render a former junction with the continent not improbable, . . . 289 Mr Loudon’s statement, of the effect produced by pruning on the quality and quantity of the timber, that trees produce the best timber in their natural locality, not supported by facts, . . . 305 The apparent use of the infinite seedling varieties of plants, . . . 307 VII.—CRUICKSHANK’S PRACTICAL PLANTER, . . . 309 Advantages of laying ground under timber, stated rather too high by Mr Cruickshank, . . . ib. Mr Cruickshank’s account of the superior fertilizing influence of forest upon the soil, . . . 310 Facts which in many cases lead to an opposite conclusion, . . . 316 An examination into the causes which promote or retard the formation, or which tend to dissipate the earth’s covering of vegetable mould, . . . 316 Account of an uncommon system of fallowing once practised in the Carse of Gowrie, . . . 324 High manuring quality of old clay walls, . . . 325 Formation of nitre the probable cause of the fertilizing quality of these walls, . . . ib. The fertilizing influence of summer fallow may in part be owing to the formation of nitre and other salts, . . . ib. That there is a deficiency of these salts in some places of the world, and an excess in others, . . . 326 Ignorance of Mr Cruickshank regarding the location of certain kinds of trees, . . . 327 Mr Cruickshank’s reprehension of the practice of covering fir seeds half an inch deep in England, and of _forcing_ suitable earth for nurseries where awanting, . . . 330 Best method of transplanting seedlings in the nursery row, . . . 331 Quotation worthy the attention of planters, . . . ib. Error of authors on the location of trees, in inculcating a determinate character of soil as generally necessary for each kind of tree, . . . 334 Further errors of Mr Cruickshank on the location of trees, . . . 335