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cumbed ? It underwent no operation preparatory to 

 transplanting, by way of lightening the top, which, if 

 done, would in all probability have preserved it alive. 



A Turkey oak of large size, weighing several tons, 

 was successfully transplanted at Cullen House some 

 years ago. The tree was dug round in the usual way 

 at the time of removal, and conveyed to its new situ- 

 ation upon the common janker. It received every 

 attention by watering, and also had some of the larg- 

 est top branches slightly reduced. It was also well 

 sustained against winds by moorings of cable wire. 



Having witnessed the unfavourable results of re- 

 moving large trees from cold clay soils into soils of 

 different qualities, we were anxious to witness fur- 

 ther examples of transplanting under different con- 

 ditions, such as the removal of trees from a warm dry 

 soil to a cold one, and also of seeing the effects pro- 

 duced by removal from a cold unfavourable soil to 

 that of a favourable opposite extreme. 



A small proprietor near Hawick, Eoxburghshire, 

 had a number of oaks and other trees taken from a 

 large plantation of about twenty years' growth. The 

 soil of this plantation was a strong red clay, and the 

 trees when lifted had scarcely any earth -balls attached 

 to them. Being for ornamental planting, they were 

 selected with the utmost regard to their form and 

 proportions every way, and were very carefully taken 

 up, so as to inflict as little injury on the roots as 

 possible. The trees were carted to their new destin- 

 ation, a distance of fully ten miles ; large pits were 

 dug for their reception, and every possible care be- 

 stowed upon them in planting. The soil into which 

 they were planted was loam of various qualities, but 

 far surpassing that of the plantation from which 



