530 Transplanting Large Trees. 



second season of growing since they were reset. This very 

 remarkable success must be attributed to the skill and knowl- 

 edge of Mr. Jaques, who fully understands the proper condi- 

 tions of vegetable growth, and who attended to the removal 

 of the trees personally, leaving nothing undone which would 

 contribute to their future prosperity and health. 



The following is Mr. Jaques's communication, accompany- 

 ing the parcel of shellbarks : — 



Dear Sir: — The accompanying shellbarks — well ripened, 

 as you will find them — grew, this season, upon a tree which 

 my brother and myself transplanted twenty-one months ago, 

 i. e., in January, 1851 . The tree was moved, at the same time 

 with three others, a distance of two miles, by what is called 

 the frozen-hall method of transplanting. It is now in a fine 

 healthy condition, and, with the others, — all of which are 

 over thirty feet, and one of them forty feet, in height, — 

 serves at once for ornament and shade. Upon our new place, 

 they produce a fine effect in taking off' and relieving the 

 inevitable rawness of a recent settlement. 



Thinking that a simple statement of these facts might 

 encourage others to do likewise, I have written these few 

 lines. Knowing — as no one better does than you — the 

 great difficulty of transplanting our hard-wooded forest trees, 

 particularly the oak and several species of the hickory, you 

 will concede that our experiment has been eminently suc- 

 cessful. The expense of transplanting did not exceed twelve 

 dollars per tree. 



Do not regard this on my part as a piece of boasting, but 

 simply as a word of encouragement to those who are com- 

 pelled to locate themselves and their household gods upon 

 a naked spot of earth. The statement, you perceive, is of 

 what has been done, not what may he done. What has 

 actually transpired, it seems to me, is worth a great deal 

 more to your readers than speculations in regard to what is 

 possible to be done! Truly your friend, George Jaques. 

 Worcester, October Wth, 1852. 



