Landscape of Norway and Scarlet Maples, Colorado Blue Spruce and Boxwood. A complete planting by means of the 

 Tree-Movers on a site cleared from a dense forest. " Meudon," tne estate of Mr. Wm. D. Guthrie, Locust Valley, L. I. Photo- 

 graphed fifteen months after planting. 



The Moving of Large Deciduous Trees 



The invention of our Tree-movers in their present perfection is the result of a slow growth. 

 Thirty- five years ago this firm moved trees of large size, some of the first being to the then new- 

 arboretum of the late Charles A. Dana, at Dosoris, and others to the village of Garden City, then 



being built on the treeless prairie 

 of the Hempstead Plains. 



We have made a vast improve- 

 ment as regards the size of tree 

 which can be moved, and in the 

 economy and safety of the method. 

 The far-famed stone roads of Long- 

 Island have been an important 

 factor in the development of tree- 

 moving, aiding in transporting such 

 heavy weights twenty to fifty miles. 

 The moving of a tree is a surgical 

 operation. The small roots are its 

 feeders ; in moving they are dis- 

 connected from the original site 

 and re-established. The moving 

 requires expert and careful opera- 

 tors to pick out the small roots, 

 of the tree. From these small 

 roots branch out the root -hairs. 

 and rootlets which gather up the 

 food and water. 



One of the Hicks' Patent Tree-Movers. We have invented the method 

 of digging which preserves the small feeding roots. The roots have a spread 

 of 30 or 40 feet. After digging, the tree is grasped by the hinged cradle and 

 swung over horizontally by a screw. In this position trees may pass under 

 electric wires. 



After the outer feeding-roots are freed the tree is undermined and the central ball of earth, 7 to 

 12 feet in diameter, cleaved from the subsoil. This central ball of earth contains mainly the large 



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