XL 



ON TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES. 



January, 1850. 



IN a ( ountry where thousands of new rural homes are every year 

 being made, how many times do the new proprietors sigh for 

 LARGE TREES. " Ah, if one could only have half a dozen, two or 

 three, nay, even a single one of the beautiful elms that waste their 

 beauty by the roadside of some unfrequented lane, or stands unap- 

 preciated in some farmer's meadow, who grudges it ground room ! " 



" And is there no successful way of transplanting such trees ? " 

 inquires the impatient owner of a new site, who feels that there 

 should be some special process some patent regenerator of that 

 forest growth, which his predecessors have so cruelly despoiled, his 

 predecessors, to whom cord-wood was of more consequence than the 

 charms of sylvan landscape. 



Though there is great delight in raising a tree from a liliputian 

 specimen no higher than one's knee, nay, even from the seed 

 itself, in feeling, as it grows upward and heavenward, year by year, 

 till the little thing that had to be sheltered with rods, stuck about it, 

 to prevent its being overlooked and trodden upon, has so far over- 

 topped us that it now shelters and gratefully overshadows us ; though, 

 as we have said, there is great delight in this, yet it must be part 

 and parcel of other delights. To a person who has just "settled" 

 upon a bare field, where he has only a new house and a " view " of 

 his neighborhood to look at, we must not be too eloquent about the 

 pleasure of raising oaks from the acorn. He is too much in the 

 condition of the hungry man, who is told to be resigned, for ther. 



