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CHAPTER Xm. 



IMPLEMENTS FOE PLANTING. 



Eepoet on Trees and Shrubs in the Nursery of Messrs 

 Peter Lawson & Son, transplanted during the 

 Summer of 1863 by M'Glashen's Transplanting 

 Apparatus. 



At the last general meeting of the Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society, a committee was appointed to inspect, 

 in August 1864, a number of young trees that had 

 been transplanted by M'Glashen's transplanting ap- 

 paratus during the summer of 1863, and to report 

 on their appearance and condition at the time of 

 inspection. The members of the appointed com- 

 mittee accordingly met in the nursery of Messrs 

 Peter Lawson & Son, Edinburgh, on the last day of 

 August 1864, and were very kindly received by 

 Mr Gorrie, the manager, who conducted them over 

 the grounds, and pointed out all the plants that 

 had been operated on by M'Glashen's apparatus be- 

 tween June and the end of August 1863 ; he also 

 exhibited the apparatus in operation, to enable the 

 committee to form an estimate of the expedition 

 with which the work could be accomplished. 



The first plants inspected were young ornamental 

 oaks, varying in height from 3 J to 10 feet. Those 



