May 15, 187S. ] 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND OOTTAGE GARDENER. 



391 



time to recover, and nearly as long to die ; but in tho case of 

 timber trees I can hardly think anything moro unlikely than 

 that they can be moved of large size and afterwards make per- 

 manent trees." In the case of " large shrubs transplanted 

 they often take five years to recover, and nearly as long to die," 

 hero Mr. Pearson speaks positively, and if this has been the 

 result of his experience he may well advise his friends to stop. 

 On the other hand, I as positively declare that for more than 

 forty years I have transplanted large shrubs with uniform 

 success. In the re- 

 moval of large trees 

 he only ventures his 

 opinion. Now, in 

 order to prove that 

 " moving large trees 

 is" «oJ" a mistake," 

 I shall only refer 

 your readers to a 

 few out of many 

 practical proofs 



which cannot be con- 

 troverted. Whilst 

 Elvaston Castle re- 

 mains undisturbed, 

 it alone affords an 

 unanswerable con- 

 tradiction to what 

 Mr. Pearson has 

 written on " movuig 

 large trees." Can 

 it be possible that 

 he has lived within 

 about seven miles 

 of this place ever 

 since he commenced 

 business, and has 

 been eyewitness to 

 the undeniable suc- 

 cess and remark- 

 ably vigorous growth 

 which has attended 

 the numerous large 

 trees removed ou my 

 machines, and has 

 forgotten aU ? 



In May, 1852, 

 my " British Winter 

 Garden " was pub- 

 lished ; in that I 

 gave some diagrams 

 of very old trees 

 of great size some 

 hundreds of years 

 of age, and some 

 of them brought as 

 much as twenty-live 

 and thirty miles 

 even in summer. 

 They never showed 

 signs of removal, 

 and are now healthy 

 and vigorous. In 

 the above httle pub- 

 lication I gave the 

 progress made in 

 twenty-one years by 

 the first four Cedars 

 of Lebanon which I 

 ever transplanted as 

 largo trees, and this 

 day I have been privileged to measure the same trees at the end 

 of another twenty-one years, and they are as follows : — 



The first of the three was planted on tho south side of an 



avenue running east and west, and shaded by tall Limes, their 

 roots also impoverishing the soil. The last two had full light 

 and fair play at the roots. 



Cedar of Lebanon Moved November, 1831. 



Height in 1831 83 feet. CircumXerenco of trunk, 1831, 6 feet. 



„ 18.V2 44 feet. „ 1852, 7 feet 10 in. 



„ May, 1873 53 feet. „ May, 1673, 10 feet 1 in. 



Notwithstanding the progress made by this tree, it has not 

 been so favourably situated. AU four are now in fuU vigour. 



A Horse Chest- 

 1- nut, transplanted in 



\) ^^ an avenue in 1850, at 



that time was over 



12 tons in weight, 



with a circumference 



of stem a httle over 



6 feet. The same 



tree I measured this 



day (May 2nd), and 



,^^_. found it feet 8 ins. 



I likewise examined 



an " aneestral Oak," 



'M^tuifiL'jtsAi which I removed 



from the centre of a 



- plantation on the 



''"' ■i&^'MM'*^^'^^ 4th': of July, 1855, 



* '^^^^^ii^^F.' during a broiUng 



^B^W^a^^ ■ sun. This 'tree was 



hi >>^ii: map ^'^ ^^^^ ^ ii"^l"^s bigh 



'liwi'^aatfa* MisiilMSe'^ ^mj j^ fyjj jg^f^ ^^j 



had no previous pre- 

 iS<^SK?^SMtej*^i*. paration. It never 



iiP^^^^J^g^jHSfe^ / flagged a leaf, it has 



greatly increased in 



size, and is now in 



fine health. Others 



of different kinds 



have been moved in 



?it*?!!Si?ffiKBHWj^^ summer with equal 



'■'' success. But as it 



~^f has been said, " any- 



Jj^^' ^ thing will grow at 



Elvaston," I enclose 

 a circular of testi- 

 monials from four- 

 teen counties, and 

 if not intruding on 

 your space, I have 

 marked six, each 

 bearing particularly 

 on different points at 

 issue, which I should 

 like you to give as 

 proofs of successful 

 planting. Mr. Pem- 

 S berton, of Millichope 



iV -sAsik. ._»t»*. Vj Park, Church Stret- 



ton, Shropshire, who 

 had two and three 

 of my machines for 

 three years, wrote 

 .io*iilMlJllte;;j,;*. eight years after we 



had finished as fol- 

 lows :— 



" I have much pleasure 

 in certifying as to tho 

 great success of the ope- 

 rations in tree-moving 

 which were carried on at 

 this place under yom- 

 directions between tho 

 years 1858 and 1861. During that period there were moved here on your 

 system, without any regard to time of year, a great number of trees of all 

 sorts and sizes, but mostly evergreens, a good many of these beiu:i Yews ol 

 large size and gi'eat age. From my experience of your system, I have no 

 hesitation in saying that if tho directions given are duly carried out in oU 

 respects, complete success may be considered a certainty." 



In this testimonial I attach great importance to the con- 

 cluding paragraph. Very few people understand how to re- 

 move large trees in accordance with their requirements, and if 

 the du-ections given are not duly carried out in all respects, 

 complete success cannot be expected. 



" Thornhill, Cowes, Isle of Wight, June 4th, 1869. 



" 1 have gi"eat pleasure in bearing testimony to the success which hoa 



