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at least on the side placed to windward, and the minute 

 fibres, and capillary rootlets not fewer than some thousands 

 in number. (Sec engraving.) As soon as they arc care- 

 fully extricated, separated, and as it were combed out with 

 the fingers, so as to cover the ground with regularity, and 

 as nearly as may be, in the same order m which they were 

 taken up, it is nature that must teach us how to arrange 

 them in their new bed. For tiiis purpose, the director dis- 

 poses the workmen, in divisions of three and three, as before. 

 Of these one workman immediately divides or separates the 

 roots, and prepares to distribute them : another assists in the 

 laying and distribution ; and the third throws in the mould 

 in such quantities, as the two others stand in need of. 



Whoever examines the beauty and regularity, with which 

 the boughs and spray of trees, not mechanically prevented, 

 are spread out in the air, and reflects, that it is an accurate 

 transcript of the ramification (if I may so speak) of the 

 roots under ground, will admire the remarkable analogy, 

 that subsists between both of these organs, and the uncom- 

 mon beauty and symmetry of both. The former is a matter 

 of daily observation : the latter falls in the way only of gar- 

 deners and arboriculturists ; but it is fully known to every 

 one, who has seen, and can witness the extraordinary effects 

 of the tree picker at this place. To give, in the replanting, 

 any thing like an accurate imitation of such regular, but 

 intricate network, requires no ordinary skill and attention in 

 the operators : and yet we are aware, as nature orders no- 

 thing in vain, that in proportion as we fail or succeed in this 

 object, we shall attain, or fall short of the purposes of vege- 

 tation, and of giving due vigour to the plant. An ingenious 

 friend of mine, who, some years since, was struck with the 

 dexterity of the process, in the hands of the workmen here, 

 very appropriately called it " the handling" of the roots, and 

 by that name it has since been distinguished. 



The two handlers, then, of each division proceed to ar- 



