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proportion of the fibrous roots can bo preserved at the 

 final lifting. These fibrous roots are those on which 

 ultimate success depends, and every means should be 

 taken to preserve as many of them as possible. The tree 

 may require to be stayed or supported during the time 

 intervening between the period of preparing and that of 

 removal. If the top is a heavy one, and the position 

 exposed, it should certainly be secured against disturb- 

 ance. 



The removal must be done with great care. It is the 

 critical and anxious part of the work. The seasonable 

 time roust be regulated by the character of the tree. If 

 it is deciduous, very early spring is preferable to late in 

 our climate. In warmer climates, however, early autumn 

 it the best time for the removal, when the fall of the 

 le ives lias not yet taken pLice. The tree will, owing to 

 the disturbance in the preparation of the preceding year, 

 have made no luxuriant growth, and such growth as it 

 may have made will ripen early; there is, therefore, no 

 danger in an early removal, and every other consideration 

 is in favor of it. If the tree is Evergreen, the operation of 

 final removal should not be performed till late spring. 

 Immediately after the first symptoms of returning ac- 

 tivity are observed, is the proper time for the removal of 

 Evergreen trees of all kinds. 



The work of removal involves the consideration of the 

 apparatus required, and this depends on the size of the 

 tree to be operated upon, and the distance it has to be 

 carried to its new position. There are various machines 

 invented for the purpose of removing very large trees, 

 but they are costly concerns, which are not needed in the 

 every day routine of the forester's work. For trees of or- 

 dinary size there exists no necessity for any thing so costly 

 or cumbrous as any of these machines. A cart or wagon 

 of any sort will do the work of transporting the tree 

 quite well, provided care is taken to prevent all avoidable 



