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losing its fresli green appearance, and I have just made an examination 

 of the tree, and I am sorry to say that it seems to be dead. I can 

 scarcely account for this after having made so favourable an appearance 

 during the late autumn and winter, unless it has been killed by the 

 severe night of frost we had on the 27th of February last. 1 find on 

 looking up our Meteorological Journal that 11° of frost were registered 

 on that occasion, being double the next greatest amount of frost we 

 had during 1876. 



I may here remark that since we commenced transplanting opera- 

 tions with our machine (four years ago) we have transplanted 84 trees 

 and large shrubs, averaging from twenty to forty-five feet high. The 

 trees were in no way " jyrepared " previous to being transplanted, and 

 we have only had two deaths — one laurel, and the sweet bay referred to. 



I should like to know if any of the members of tlie Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society have made use of the Transplanting Machine 

 figured by me in the " Transactions " of the Society four years ago 

 I should also like to know what kind of transplanting apparatus our 

 continental brethren use, and with what success. 



Perhaps at some future time I shall notify the results of our late 

 transplanting operations, and possibly give an outline of the mode of 

 using our machine under every variety of circumstances. 



VOL. I. 



