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also, for transferring trees of vast size and wcigiit in an up- 

 right position ; the oblong machine of the same period, with 

 four) and sometimes six low wheels, for the same gigantic 

 purpose : these, and such like costly implements, more fitted 

 for show than daily use, it were needless to enumerate, and 

 still more needless to describe. My sole object being a park- 

 practice, to which dispatch and success are the chief recom- 

 mendations, I prefer the simple machine of Brown, with 

 some improvements which I have made upon it, to all other 

 contrivances. It is to that machine, therefore, that the direc- 

 tions for the transportation about to be given, are understood 

 to refer. 



The tree being in readiness, as above described, for re- 

 moval to its new site, the machining of it (if I may be per- 

 mitted the expression,) is a work deserving of the particular 

 attention of the planter.* On the skill of the person, who 

 conducts this department, and whom I have ventured to 

 denominate the machiner, much depends, in providing against 

 the various accidents, to which branches, not less than roots 

 are exposed in an operation, always implying much violence, 

 and sometimes unforeseen contingency. The first step to be 

 taken is, to bring the wheels of the machine close up to the 

 body of the tree ; and should the protuberance of the nucleus, 

 or mass of roots under the collar stand in the way, as some- 

 times happens, the wheels must be forcibly approximated, 

 until they be quite close. While this is about to be pei- 

 formed, the machiner darts an experienced eye over the 

 stem, and whole style of the ramification, and at once ascer- 

 tains the side, upon which the tree can be best laid along 

 the pole, and also the particular opening among the boughs, 

 into which the pole can be most safely introduced. If there 

 be the smallest bend in the stem, as almost always happens, 

 the convex side must lie uppermost on the machine ; other- 



* Note I. 

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