322 Landscape Gardening 



from the air by mats during transportation. When proper 

 regard is paid to this point, and to judicious selection of 

 the season, evergreens will not be found more difficult of 

 removal than other trees. 



Another mode of transplanting large evergreens, which is 

 very successfully practised among us, is that of removing 

 them with frozen balls of earth in mid-winter. When skil- 

 fully performed, it is perhaps the most complete of all modes, 

 and is so different from the common method, that the objec- 

 tion we have just made to winter planting does not apply 

 to this case. The trees to be removed are selected, the 

 situations chosen, and the holes dug, while the ground is 

 yet open in autumn. When the ground is somewhat 

 frozen, the operator proceeds to dig a trench around the 

 tree at some distance, gradually undermining it, and leav- 

 ing all the principal mass of roots embodied in the ball of 

 earth. The whole ball is then left to freeze pretty thoroughly 

 (generally till snow covers the ground), when a large sled 

 drawn by oxen is brought as near as possible, the ball of 

 earth containing the tree rolled upon it, and the whole is 

 easily transported to the hole previously prepared, where 

 it is placed in the proper position, and as soon as the weather 

 becomes mild, the earth is properly filled in around the ball. 

 A tree, either evergreen or deciduous, may be transplanted 

 in this way, so as scarcely to show, at the return of growth, 

 any ill effects from its change of location. 



