APPENDIX. 



I. 



Notes on transplanting trees. Reasons for frequent failures in removing large trees. 

 Directions for performing this operation. Selection of subjects. Preparing trees for 

 removal. Transplanting evergreens. 



There is no subject on which the professional horticulturist is more 

 frequently consulted in America, than transplanting trees. And, as it 

 is an essential branch of Landscape Gardening — indeed, perhaps, the 

 most important and necessary one to be practically understood in the 

 improvement or embellishment of new country residences — we shall 

 offer a few remarks here, with the hope of rendering it a more easy 

 and successful practice in the hands of amateurs. 



Although there are great numbers of acres of beautiful woods and 

 groves, the natural growth of the soil, in most of the older states, yet 

 a considerable portion of our ordinary country seats are meagrely 

 clothed with trees, while many beautiful sites for residences have, in 

 past years, been so denuded that the nakedness of their appearance con- 

 stitutes a serious objection to them as places of residence. To be able, 

 therefore, to transplant, from natural copses, trees of ten or twenty 

 years' growth, is so universally a desideratum, that great numbers of 

 experiments are made annually with this view ; though few persons 

 succeed in obtaining what they desire, viz. the immediate effect of 

 wood ; partly from a want of knowledge of the nature of vegetable 

 physiology, and partly from malpractice in the operation of removal 

 itself 

 • When the admirably written "Planter's Guide," by Sir Henrv 



