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SECTION IX. 



PLANTING OF THE TREES, IN THEIR NEW SITUATION. 



In the foregoing- Section, we have seen the method, by 

 which the tree is taken up, and transported on the machine. 

 Let us now follow it to its destination in the open park. 



It has been above observed, that for the safety and success 

 of the operation, the rate of moving along the ground cannot 

 be too slow. At that already pointed out of two miles and 

 a half an hour, the difference between travelling a mile, and' 

 half a mile, does not very materially increase the labour of 

 transportation. If the pit have been prepared a twelvemonth 

 beforehand, the opening of it now is an easy business ; and 

 for that purpose, should it not have been done previously to 

 the taking-up, two or three workmen should be sent forward, 

 to throw out the earth regularly on all sides, to the depth of 

 fourteen or fifteen inches at first, leaving, next to the inside 

 edge, a space of eighteen inches, or two feet clear ; so that 

 the excavation can be enlarged, if requisite, without the 

 necessity of removing the mound thrown up. 



When the machine has got within forty or fifty yards of 

 the place, it is proper to halt the horses, in order to make 

 two necessary arrangements, the one in which the root, and 

 the other in which the top is concerned. The director of the 

 work first rapidly measures with his eye the depth of the 

 root (that is, the thickness of the mass of roots and earth 

 together, from the upper part of the collar, to the underbed 



