APPENDIX. 



I. 



Notes on transplanting trees. Reasons for frequent failures in removing large trees. Direc- 

 tions for performing this operation. Selection of subjects. Preparing trees for removal. 

 Transplanting evergreens. 



There is no subject on which the professional horticulturist is more 

 frequently consulted in America, than transplanting trees. And, as it 

 is an essential branch of Landscape Gardening, indeed perhaps the most 

 important and necessary one to be practically understood in the improve- 

 ment or embellishment of new country residences, we shall offer a few re- 

 marks here, with the hope of rendering it a more easy and successful prac- 

 tice in the hands of amateurs. 



Although there are great numbers of acres of beautiful woods and groves, 

 the natural growth of the soil, in most of the older states, yet a considerable 

 portion of our ordinary country seats are meagrely clothed with trees, while 

 many beautiful sites for residences have in past years been so denuded, that 

 the nakedness of their appearance constitutes a serious objection to them as 

 places of residence. To be able, therefore, to transplant from natural copses, 

 trees of ten or twenty years growth, is so universally a desideratum, that 

 great numbers of experiments are made annually with this view; — though 

 few persons succeed in obtaining what they desire, viz., the immediate effect 

 of wood ; partly from a want of knowledge of the nature of vegetable phy- 

 siology, and partly from mal-practice in the operation of removal itself. 



When the admirably written "Planter's Guide," by Sir Henry Steuarf, 

 made its appearance some ten years ago, not only describing minutely the 



