FOUEIQN NOTICES. 



T;oi*eigi} polices. 



M^GLAsnAx's TnAxspi.ANTiNo AppAKATrs. — For povoral inoiiths past the English and 

 Scotch journals have been giving accounts of an apparatus invented by a Mr. ^'Glashan, 

 of Edinburgh, for transjjlanting trees Avitliout disturbing the root.s. Several successive 

 trials in Scotl-and attracted very general arttention, and n trial at Chiswick — the liead quar- 

 ters of all horticultural experiments in England — was determined upon. "We have avoided 

 giving any account of previous trials, looking to this one before tl>e London Horticultural 

 Society as likely to be reliable and decisive, as Avell as impartial. Such an invention as tliis 

 cannot but be regarded Avith a good deal of interest in America, for we are cei'tainlj the 

 most impatient planters in the world. We extract the following report of the Chiswick 

 ti'ial, and the cuts illustrative of the machine, from the Gardeners^ Chronicle : 



On Saturday last, in the Gartlcn of the Ilorticultural Society, Mr. M'Glashkx exhibited his 

 apparatus for transplanting trees, in tlie presence of II. R. II. Prince Albert, attended by Captain 

 the Hon. Dudley de Ros; of Sir I'hilip de Malpas Gret Egerton, Bart., Sir James Matuesox, 

 B:;rt., and Lady Matueso.v, Sir Joseph Paxton, Colonel Cualloxer, J. M. Strachan, Esq.; C. If. 

 TrRXFn?, Esq.; C. Devon, Esq.; "W. BROAunuRST, Esq.; C. Towxley, Esq.; C. W. Dilke, Esq.; and 

 many otiier spectators, among whom were Mr. Ingram, from the Royal Gardens at Frogmore; Mr. 

 Toward, from Osborne; JMr. Baruon, Mr. Glendinning, Mr. Osrorke, and many such practical men. 

 llie object of the inventor of the apparatus was to lift plants from three to si.\ty feet higli, 

 without disturbing their roots or throwing them out of the perpendicular, and to carry them 



when lifted to any other place, still re- 

 taining their earth and their original 

 position. The principle of the contri- 

 vance will be understood from the an- 

 nexed figure of a small apparatus. — 

 Conceive the plant in this case to be 

 surrounded by a stout rectangular iron 

 frame {a), which is placed upon the 

 ground. Then let the spades 6 6 6 be 

 forced nearly perpendicularly into the 

 soil within the iron frame. Next suppose 

 an extension rod {c c) to be so a])plied 

 to the handles of the opposite spades, as 

 to drive them outwards by the leverage 

 ate acting upon the fulcrum (a); the re- 

 sult will be that the ball of earth en- 

 closed between their blades will be con- 

 verted from a cube into a wedge with 

 the point downwards, by which means 

 the earth becomes secured within the 

 four spade blades. After this a collar is fixed to the stem of the plant, and to the two opposite 

 sides of the iron frame (a), grasping the plant firmly and preventing its slipping. The next point _ 

 is to attach to the four corners of the iron frame as many hooks (J), through which is passed a ^ 

 pair of handles, such as are used for a sedan chair (e); and then the plant is ready to be lifted, 



