494 [Assembly 



Mr. Carter. — It will not answer well to transplant trees frora^a 

 dense forest to an open spot, when you would have those forest trees 

 succeed. You should transplant numbers, and place them in close 

 neighborhood for some time, and afterwards separate them from each 

 other. I have transplanted several hundred trees, some of which were 

 thirty feet high, successfully. I made the holes to receive them seve- 

 ral months before hand ; I prepared pulverized manures and vegeta- 

 ble mould; I dug trenches around the trees to be transplanted; I had 

 ropes fastened some fifteen feet high from the ground to the body of 

 the tree; this rope was drawn upon by oxen, who pulled the tree 

 down upon the wagon axeltrees, ready to receive it; hauled it to its 

 hole; set it up by hands and poles ; laid all the roots out smooth and 

 straight, then imbedded them perfectly in the prepared soil and manures. 

 It is better to do all this in the fall than in the spring. 



Mr. Meigs exhibited to the Club, Stuart's drawing of a full grown 

 tree being transported on a wagon. 



Mr. Fleet remarked that it might be important to leave the limbs 

 as near as possibie^to the roots, to keep up a more intimate and active 

 connection with the roots and leaves. Tall trees, with the limbs at 

 the top, will not grow as well. 



Chairman. — I transolanted an Elm tree of about four inches in di- 

 ameter, thirty years ago. I left all its top on; I transplanted with a 

 ball of frozen earth about its roots. That tree is now a handsome 

 one, and is about one foot in diameter. 



Mr. Carter. — Some fruit trees carefully transplanted, will bear fruit 

 the same year. I have seen the Apple tree do it. In our western 

 country and in Canada, it is common now-a-days to select a fine group 

 of young Sugar Maple trees, and then to cut down all the forest trees 

 about them, so as to give the group the necessary air and sun. After 

 one year these are transplanted to the required spot. Some of these 

 trees tecome what are termed sugar bushes. Owners of trees hire 

 them out to sugar makers at so much a tree. The makers bore a hole 

 in a tree with a three-quarter inch auger, on the south side. The sap 

 of the hickory tree is sometimes used to make molasses ; it does not 



