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site. The blanks thus created were made up in the Spring of 

 1858, from the same nursery stock, and in the same manner as 

 before, but at the beginning of May instead of in the Autumn ; 

 and the consequence was, that not only was there no case of 

 failure, but these last removed plants are now much taller and 

 stronger specimens than the survivors of the previous year's 

 planting. 



To notice the advantageous results of midsummer trans- 

 planting, we need only refer to the trees removed during the 

 summer of 1863, at Groldenacres Nurseries, to test and exhibit 

 the power and advantage of M'Glashen's Patent Transplanting 

 Apparatus, and which at this date (October, 1865) are all very 

 healthy and thriving. These trees are chiefly Coniferae, and 

 ornamental oaks, such as Quercus Panonica, Salicifolia, Pteri- 

 folia, &c, and ranged from about four feet to eleven feet in 

 height when removed. The operations of transplanting them 

 were carried out during June, July, and August, 1863, and not 

 only had none of the plants lifted sustained any injury, but even 

 in the following spring, and ever since, they have gone on pro- 

 ducing vigorous shoots of young wood ; several thorns removed 

 having, in 1864, made growths of about three and a half feet in 

 length ! 



Before concluding this paper, we have to notice the compara- 

 tive advantages in point of cost, progress, &c. of transplanting 

 trees from three to six feet high, instead of the larger specimens 

 usually removed for purposes of immediate effect. When per- 

 manent results are desired, and value as well as amenity has to 

 be added to the escate by the growth of healthy timber, there 

 can be no doubt that the advantage is in favour of the smaller 

 specimens. It may, no doubt, be desirable to clothe with rich 

 foliage the barren landscape, or afford protection to weather- 

 beaten flocks and herds, by calling into immediate existence the 

 sheltering belt ; and where the subjects can be procured, to be 

 thinned out, or where clumps are to be found to draw from, the 

 practice of removing large trees may be adopted with benefit and 

 success, at no very extravagant expense ; and thus enhanced value 

 may be given at once to bare pasture lands ; but the art must 

 ever be limited, and it is not in the case of large trees applicable 

 to the general purposes of utility. It may be argued in favour of 

 the economy of the practice of removing large specimens, that 

 extensive tracts of ground usually occupied by young trees and 

 nurses may be saved for other purposes, that the expenses of 

 fencing and of maintaining plantations during years of unprofit- 

 ableness, and of cleaning, thinning, and pruning may be avoided, 

 if trees of larger growth were more generally transplanted than 

 those usually employed, and that the difficulty of raising in 

 some unsuitable localities and soils several of the slow-growing 



