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as far as possible, being preserved. The wheels are then brought 

 up to Uie tree, the axle made fast to the body (with a stuffing be- 

 tween to prevent injury to the bark), and the pole is tied securely 

 to the trunk and branches higher up. A long rope, or ropes-, being 

 now fixed to the pole ;and the branches, the pole serves as a lever, 

 and the top is thus brought down, while the mass of roots is sup- 

 ported r upon the axle. After the tree is properly, balanced on the 

 carriage, horses are attached, and it is transported to the hole pre- 

 pared for it. , 



' This mode is, one which requu-es a gbod deal of practical skill 

 in the management of toots, and in the whole art of trahsplanting, 

 though great effects may be produced by it in the hands of SkilM 

 workmen.* 



Transplanting with a frozen hall is a good deal practised in this 

 country, and is much the cheapest and most perfect mode for trees 

 of moderately large size; that is to say, trees from 20 to 30 feet 

 high, and -v^hose trunks measure from 6 inches to a foot in diame- 

 ter. Trees of this proportion are indeed the most suitable for the 

 embellishment of mew, places, since they unite immediate beauty of 

 effect with comparative cheapness in removal, while it requires less 

 mechanical skill to remove them. 



The process of removing a tree with a frozen ball is a simple 

 one, especially if performed in the early part of winter, white there 

 iayet but little frost in the ground. In the first place, th6 hole 

 should be made ready,f and' a pil^ of suitable soil laid by the 

 side of it and covered with straw, to prevent its being frozen when 

 wanted. 



Then a trench is dug all round th^ tree, in order to leave a ball 

 r ' ,''..> 



* We cannot but express onr surprise that some of our exceedingly in- 

 genious and clfever Yankee teamsters have never taken up, as a business, the 

 art of transplanting large trees. To a. person competent to the task, wijth 

 his machine, his oxen, and his trained >et of hands, an abdndance of occu- 

 pation would be oifered by wealthy improvers of new places, to whom the 

 cost of a dozen elms, forty feet high, at a remnnerating price, would be a 

 nSatter of trifling moment. , 



- + Especially should the soil, in the bottom of the hole, ba well trenched 

 and miinured. 



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