THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



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TRANSPLANTING APPARATUS FOR SMALL GARDENS.| 



«' Besides the above-described excellent method for the removal of [large 

 trees, there is a very good method employed for the transplantation of small 

 trees, specimen conifers, 

 evergreens, and like sub- 

 jects. Round each tree a 

 circular trench is opened 

 large enough for a man to 

 move about in it at his 

 ease. The depth should 

 be equal to that of the 

 deepest large roots, and a 

 ball of earth large enough 

 to insure the safe removal 

 of the tree should be left. 

 All the smaller roots 

 found in the trench should 

 be carefully preserved. 

 The ball is shaped into 

 the form of a truncated 

 cone, with its smallest 

 portion below. It is next 

 surrounded with light 

 deal boards, separated 

 from each other by the 

 distance of three-quarters 

 of an inch or so, like the 

 staves of a barrel. They 

 are next secured tempo- 

 rarily, by a suitable rope. 

 A man then descends in- 

 to the hole and fixes the 

 rope by means of the 

 screw apparatus shown 

 here, so as to press the 

 planks firmly against the 

 soil of the ball. The 

 press is then removed and 

 the same thing done 

 higher up, within say four 

 inches of the top, an or- 

 dinary cask hoop being 

 first nailed round the 

 planks before the screw is 

 unfixed. The ball being 

 firmly fixed in its proper 

 position, it is hove over so as to get to its underneath part. The bottom 

 of a cask having its boards fastened together with a circular piece of sheet 



Small Machine for Lifting Specimen Shrubs and Conifers. 



Screw used in preparing specimens for removal, as Bhown in the preceding figure, 

 iron rather larger than itself is passed under, the iron being pierced with two or 

 three holes and turned up so that it may be nailed against the planks. In some cases 

 the stem of the tree should be fixed by iron wire to the sides of the improvisedjcask. 



