Transplanting and Pruning of Forest Trees. \5 



the back border of which, as far as the clumps on each side, is 

 intended for American plants ; the side borders for choice shrubs ; 

 and what is left of the walls, at each end of the green-houses, 

 for choice creepers. 



Shortgrove, Essex, 1834. 



Art. VII. On the Necessity of adjusting the Tops of transplanted 

 Forest Trees to their Roots. By Mr. John Howden. 



From experience I can confirm the doctrine of Mr. Rutger 

 (X. 539.), that, in transplanting trees, the top should be muti- 

 lated in proportion to the damages sustained by the roots. I 

 I have been in the practice of transplanting large trees during 

 the whole of the present century, and this last spring I trans- 

 planted about fifty from 20 ft. to 30 ft. high, without losing a 

 single tree. As for removing large shrubs, I do not remember 

 of ever losing one of them. Last year I dug up an old bay 

 tree (Zyaurus nobilis), seventy years old, and without any care 

 laid the roots, when divided, in by the heels, and have now 

 twenty fine thriving young plants, exclusive of the old stump, 

 which has become a large bush. I also removed a yew tree 

 from the avenue of Hale's Hall, near Cheadle, which is said to 

 have been planted by the great Judge Hale : in doing so, I was 

 too sanguine, and preserving too much both of the head and 

 roots, it broke our machinery, broke the toll-gates, and broke 

 itself very much ; it, however, lives, and is doing well. I also 

 removed a lime tree, with a trunk 2 ft. in diameter, but this was 

 many years ago, and it has now formed a most beautiful top. 

 Last year I cut down some fine laurels, of twenty years' growth. 



