AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING. 79 



On Trte Iransplanting. 



, The larch, the service, or mountain ash tree, will likewise bear to be re- 

 moved, but they should not exceed twelve years growth. 



The balsam poplar of Canada, is by far the most beautiful and magnificent 

 plant of all the sptcies. The leaves are very large, of a light chearful green, and 

 the bark of a smooth shining brownish colour. It is propagated with much ease, 

 is a hardy plant, a quick grower, and will bear removing at a great size. 



The crab tree and white thorn will also suffer to be removed, provided they 

 are in a healthy growing state. And as few trees exceed them either in beauty 

 or fragrance in the spring, or their rich glow of fruit in autumn, I should there- 

 fore recommend them to be planted singly in lawns, fields, and parks; where judi- 

 ciously interspersed with other trees, they would highly decorate those scenes. 



The elevation of stately trees, in parks, clumps, lawns, or fields, has a most 

 agreeable effect ; in new designs, and about new built houses, these cannot always 

 be got, without much labour and expence, or waiting many years. But by the 

 help of the foregoing directions, and of the transplanting machine, hereafter to 

 ' be described, a gentleman may soon make a fine figure in a bare field, park, or 

 about a new built house, without much labour or expence, or waiting so many 

 years. 



This is a great encouragement to gentlemen, even to those advanced in 

 years, to have the pleasure of seeing a flourishing and stately plantation of well 

 grown trees, raised in one year with certain success. 



Having given instructions for training up young trees for transplanting 

 when large, and described the various kinds most proper for that purpose, I shall 

 now proceed to the construction and use of a machine for transplanting them. 



