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SECTION VII. 



PREPARATION OF THE TREES FOR REMOVAL. 



It has been said above, that the removal of large trees is 

 appUcable to two different objects, namely, single trees, or 

 open dispositions of wood, and to close plantations ; which 

 last consist of grove and underwood intermixed. Now, as 

 the former much more frequently occur in practice than the 

 latter, so transplanting may be generally said, as has been 

 already noticed, to imply increased exposure. 



By the wise economy of nature, it has been provided, that 

 trees in open situations, in order to thrive, must possess cer- 

 tain external conditions, which have been designated the 

 protecting properties. Therefore, the principle of transplant- 

 ing lies, in adopting such subjects as possess those properties, 

 wherever they can be found, and in communicating them 

 to others, in which they may be deficient. It is obvious that 

 trees, endued with the protecting properties or prerequisites, 

 require no preparation at all ; and that those trees, which 

 possess them partially or inadequately, require it precisely in 

 the ratio or degree of that inadequate possession. Further, 

 it is apparent, as these properties must be either protecting 

 or non-protecting, or a modification of the one or the other, 

 so the complete presence of the one class of properties neces- 

 sarily implies the absence of the other class. But both may 

 nevertheless exist at one and the same time, in different parts 

 of the same tree. For the purpose of removal, for example, 



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