TO SELECT TREES FOR THE PURPOSE OF 

 MOVING THEM. 



It is often overlooked and great mistakes are made in se- 

 lecting trees and an experienced man should examine such trees 

 intended for moving and trees needed for this purpose should be 

 in the prime of health. It too often happens that trees are moved 

 without being examined and if unhealthy trees are moved it will 

 only be a great disappointment, as the expense for moving an 

 unhealthy tree is the same as if the tree had been in a good con- 

 dition. It is not advisable to do this kind of work except it is 

 fully understood that it is connected with more or less expense 

 after the trees are planted. It takes a generation to grow a large 

 tree, and what nature has done for many years in order to pro- 

 duce a large size tree, it cannot be expected to be done without 

 the best of care. It is not often realized what a great demand 

 of nourishment a large tree will need. My attention has often 

 been called to examine large specimen trees that have been left 

 where grading or excavating have been done and sometimes 

 found a mound of earth from thirty-five to forty-five feet wide 

 left around the tree. In most cases such trees will gradually 

 die. In the first place the ground is graded to a slope all around 

 the tree preventing the water from getting at the roots, and in 

 long dry spells the tree will suffer from the want of moisture. 

 In the second place part of the food supply has been cut off from 

 the tree, such trees will show from year to year the effect of 

 destruction and gradually will die for the lack of proper atten- 

 tion from the start. 



It will be of great value for such trees if a concrete wall 

 were built around the mound at a proper distance from the tree 

 to be level with the bottom of the tree. Inside of the wall good 

 rich soil or compost should be packed to the level of the wall, if 

 this is done it will prevent the great waste of water and be what 

 is needed for the tree. This gives an idea how important it is in 



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