XXIV. Larch does not well withstand wind in open exposures. -NOTE XXV. Smith's description of the Birch. Three kinds enumerated, the mahogany, yellow, and black Birch.—NOTE LIST OF PLATES. PORTRAIT of the AUTHOR, Frontispiece. PLATE I. View in the park at Allanton House,-to face page 14 PLATE II. Specimen of a tree removed on the preservative principle, 104 PLATE III. View of the machine in motion, and of a tree dur ing transportation, 186 PLATE IV. Transplanting machine used at Allanton House, 192 186 PLATE VI. Entrance-gate to the park at Allanton, from the West, 457 MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY STEUART, BART., OF ALLANTON, LL.D., F.R.S.E., &c. IT has been frequently remarked, that the details of a retired and literary life must be necessarily few and unimportant. While there is, in most instances, not a little truth in this statement, it does not, however, follow that it is either universally just, or that there should be any necessary connexion between a studious or even ordinary retirement and the absence of utility or interest, whether of a local or more general character. It is true that, both in the history of nations and individuals, striking events or brilliant exploits are calculated to awaken and compel a high degree of interest and admiration, however little beneficial or important may prove their results, to either the individual himself or the nation in whose history these events have occurred. If we turn to the page of history, what is it which generally arrests the attention? The rise of empires whose progress is stained and marked by blood, the consequences of hostile invasion, or the plots and conspiracies of internal discord, supply materials for the historian, and afford an interest to his readers, apart from all considerations of general utility b* |