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success, that I feel justified in harping 

 on the necessity of asking advice from 

 those who are competent to give it. 



SAVING TREES 



Great consideration should be given to 

 the matter of saving trees, whether these 

 are large or small. Small trees can be 

 handled like so much merchandise, and 

 successfully moved from place to place. 

 It is preferable to move these in winter. 

 Dig about them so that there will be a 

 ball of earth large enough to keep intact ; 

 then it is necessary merely to allow this 

 ball to freeze up hard before tilting it 

 onto a stone drag, shifting it and its 

 fellows to positions that will most bene- 

 fit the landscape. 



Large trees can be moved, but at con- 

 siderable expense, and such work should 



