56 THE ART AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



expensive, and the choice of sorts is somewhat restricted. Recourse 

 is therefore frequently had to plants, chiefly evergreen, which, though 

 looking well for a time, grow in no short period beyond the needs of 

 a small garden, and by their shade injure the growth of rarer shrubs. 

 It is, however, mostly necessary to use some fast-growing trees ; 

 but the best plan is so to arrange the general planting scheme, that 

 such trees may be cut down and removed after serving their 

 purpose. There are, however, many plants that attain a great size 

 with sufficient rapidity, such .as Cedrus deodara and Atlantica, 

 Cupressus Lawsoniana, Thujopsis borealis and dolabrata, Thuja of 

 sorts, Portugal and common Laurel, Hollies, Limes, Acacia, Beech, 

 etc., many of which, by constant pruning, may be kept within size 

 fitting for a small garden. 



The moving, or transplanting, of large growing trees is a resource 

 of great utility, and can be carried out with less difficulty than is 

 frequently incurred by processes ordinarily employed. Some of the 

 methods resorted to, in general circumstances, create much of the 

 difficulty they are designed to overcome ; necessitating the use oi 

 expensive and elaborate machinery, when a much simpler process 

 will serve. In practice, I adopt the method described later on ; I 

 have found it easy, inexpensive, expeditious, and successful. With 

 a staff of 30 men, as many as 20 trees, whose stems average i ft. in 

 diameter at the ground level, with a height of 30 to 40 ft., have 

 been thus safely removed to new positions, at an average distance 

 of 100 yards, in one day. The trees were prepared on the previous 

 day. Trees can be moved in this way over hill and dale, and on to 

 newly-made mounds, where it would be difficult to employ a tree- 

 moving machine dragged by horses. In dealing with an estate it is 

 frequently found that trees have been long planted in belts at the 

 boundaries ; or they are in the way ; or are wrongly placed ; or, 

 perhaps, are crowded together, to their detriment. It is necessary 



