CONTENTS. XXXI 



SECTION VII. 



PREPARATION OF Tim TRKKS POR REMOVAL. 



Preparation, the providing of the Protecting Properties. Great error 

 in supposing, that it relates solely to Roots. Importance of Exposure, 

 and letting Nature do her men work. Possession of the Protecting 

 Properties the most perfect state of Trees, p. 185. — 1st, Preparation 

 of Single Trees. Improvements on Lord Fitzharding's method. — 

 Methods suited to various objects, and various circumstances of Plants 

 and Soils, p. 188. — 2d, Preparation of Trees in Large Masses. Great 

 utility of Transplanting Nurseries, p. 192. — Belts and Clumps in the 

 style of Brown, furnish admirable materials. Mr. Thomas White. 

 Superior talents and ingenuity of that Artist. Mode of treating these 

 Materials, p. 194. — Style of forming the Nurseries. Successful exam- 

 ple from the practice at Allanton House, p. 195. — Cultivation of Trans- 

 planting Nurseries an Improvement, and in no view a Deterioration of 

 Woods, p. 198. 



SECTION VIII. 



TAKING-OP AND TRANSPORTATION OF THE TREES. 



Superior management of Roots, according to the Preservative sys- 

 tem. Misapprehension of Marshall and others, p. 201. — Peculiar Im- 

 plements necessary to take up minute and fibrous Roots. The Tree 

 Picker, p. 202. — Instructions for the process of Taking-up. Injudicious 

 to hurry that nice operation. Immense importance of preserving the 

 Capillary Rootlets. Danger in leaving Roots long uncovered. Re- 

 markable difference in the habits of Trees, p. 202. — Raising the Tree 

 from the Pit, and great Improvement in the process, p. 206. — Idea of 

 the Transplanting Machines knovni in Europe. Superiority of Brown's 

 Machine, for Dispatch and Park-practice, p. 208. — Machining the Tree. 

 The Machiner's, a duty of nicety and difficulty. Details of the opera- 

 tion, p. 209. — Machiner acts as Steersman. Tree drawn out of the 

 pit, and Balance-men sent to the Top, p. 212. — Delineation of the Ma- 

 chine in Motion, on the Balancing principle. Third Wheel unneces- 

 sary, unless for very hea\-y work, p. 213. — Transportation sometimes 

 exposed to dangerous accidents. Account of an extraordinary one, 

 p. 214. — Light Improved Machines recommended for Park-practice; 



