CHAPTER XXXV. 



TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES. 



Where immediate effect is required, the transplanting of 

 large trees and shrubs will be an operation of considerable 

 importance, and, though it is fraught with both trouble and 

 expense, the results obtained have led to an increased 

 adoption of the system during recent years. 



There is hardly a limit to the size or weight of the tree 

 to be removed when the operator is provided with suitable 

 appliances, and that success has crowned the effort of recent 

 operations in our Royal and other parks is clearly demon- 

 strated. Of late years several appliances for removing 

 large and weighty trees and shrubs have been placed 

 on the market, but amongst these certainly one of the 

 best is that made and patented by Messrs. Faulkner & 

 Sons, and of which an illustration is attached. Its principal 

 recommendations are simplicity of structure, the ease with 

 which it may be worked, and lightness, combined with 

 such strength that even the weightiest tree can be 

 removed. But not only is this tree-lifter valuable where 

 transplanting is being engaged in, for in removing large 

 tree roots, logs of timber, blocks of stone, and heavy 

 materials generally, it has been found most useful. 



The apparatus is made somewhat in the form of a 

 four-wheeled lorry, having a steel frame only. The frame 

 at iihe back is made movable to admit of the apparatus 

 being placed so that the tree to be moved stands in the 



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