THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



DECEMBEE, 1852. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Traiisplanting Large Trees. By the Editor. 



We have never been an advocate of the practice of re- 

 moving very large trees. That it can be done, and very 

 successfully too, has been long since demonstrated by Sir 

 Henry Stuart, in his Planters'' Guide. Yet, upon the whole, 

 except in some few instances, where a tree is loved for the 

 associations connected with it, or where it is desirable to 

 produce an immediate growth upon some treeless and ex- 

 posed site, we have not thought the practice worthy of 

 general imitation. 



In our severe climate, where the icy fetters of winter 

 permit the removal of trees on a different plan from that of 

 warmer regions, transplanting very large ones may be done 

 with a greater certainty of success than by the ordinary 

 method, as detailed in the work above alluded to ; and we 

 have from time to time recorded the most successful experi- 

 ments by the frozen-ball method, as it has been very properly 

 called: a more recent case has just been communicated to 

 us by our correspondent Mr. George Jaques, of Worcester, 

 where the specimens removed were not only very large, but 

 the most difficult kinds to subject to such an experiment, 

 viz., the shellbark hickory. 



We have now lying before us a handful of very handsome 

 shellbarks, gathered from trees 30 to 40 feet high, removed 

 by Mr. Jaques less than two years ago, this being their 



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