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TRANSPLANTING AND PLANTING. 



trees will be found in the Suburban Architect and Landscape Gardener, 



Isted. p. 555. 



715. The machinery for moving large trees has been noticed (443 and 709), 

 towhich it may 

 be added that 

 trucks or sledg- 

 es, poles and 

 ropes, require 

 to be abundant- 

 ly provided ; 

 though for or- 

 dinary purpos- 

 es, a pair of 

 high wheels 

 and an axle for 



Fig. 256. Vertical profile of the 

 tabular tree-guard. 



large trees without balls, and a sledge with 

 Fig. 255. isometHcaiview of the tabular an iron bottom, to be afterwards described, 



for shrubs with balls, is all that is essential. 



716. Transplanting Evergreens. There is scarcely any residence in the 

 country in which it is not frequently necessary to transplant evergreen 

 shrubs, sometimes from changes or new arrangements, and sometimes on 

 account of the plants crowding each other. Evergreen trees, such as those 

 of the pine and fir tribe, are also occasionally transplanted, though much less 



requently than shrubs. The most readily transplanted evergreen trees of 



arge size, are the spruce fir and the yew ; the former having numerous 

 fibrous roots near the surface, and the latter 

 having also numerous fibrous roots growing 

 together, and consolidating the soil immediately 

 round the tree into a compact mass. Spruce 

 firs, yews, and hollies of large size have, for 

 some years past, been transplanted at Elvaston 

 Castle by Mr. Barron, \vith scarcely a single 

 failure, though the spruce firs were from sixty to 

 eighty feet in height, and many of the yews 

 w r ere above a hundred years old. Evergreen 

 shrubs of all sizes have also been transplanted 



F ig. 257. Cross section of the tabular with the greatest success in the New Botanic 

 tree-guard. Garden of Edinburgh, by Mr. Me Nab, of whom 



Mr. Barron is a pupil, and from whose excellent pamphlet on the subject we 



shall chiefly compile the remainder of this article. 



717. The best season for transplanting evergreens is still a debated point 

 among gardeners, though it is now generally agreed that autumn and winter 

 are preferable to spring or summer. On the Continent, spring appears to 

 be preferred, just before the rising of the sap, when the leaves of the past year 

 are ready to drop off; but it must be recollected that there are comparatively 

 very few evergreens cultivated on the Continent, which are sufficiently hardy 

 to endure the open air, with the exception of pines and firs, the narrow 

 leaves of which suffer much less from drying winds than those of broad- 

 leaved evergreens, such as the holly, the laurel, the arbutus, &c. Miller 

 (during whose time there were comparatively but few evergreens, to what 

 there are at present) recommends planting the common and Portugal laurels 





