116 PLANTING. 



effected by common hand-screws, and the chain made 

 to pass round the planks on which the tree rests." 



An account of a tree-lifter, patented by Dr Ifew- 

 ington, is given in the ' Journal of Forestry,' Novem- 

 ber 1881 :— 



" A number of machines have been patented from 

 time to time, intended for transplanting large trees, 

 some of which are capitally adapted for doing good 

 work; it must, however, have occurred to every one 

 intrusted with the care of plantations, that there is 

 a want of some mechanical assistance for moderate- 

 sized trees and shrubs, which, although too big to be 

 moved with the spade and the hand, are yet not suffi- 

 ciently bulky to require the use of a transplanting 

 machine. 



" We learn from the inventor, Dr Newington, Tice- 

 hurst, Sussex, that by means of his instrument, coni- 

 fers, forest and fruit trees, as well as shrubs of con- 

 siderable size, can be lifted from the ground without 

 injury to the roots in two or three minutes. A larch 

 16 feet high was brought clean out of the ground, 

 with roots from 3 feet to 4 feet in length, in the 

 space of two or three minutes ; and an Arbor vitce, 10 

 feet high, which had been growing in the same place 

 for six years, was uprooted in about the same time. 



" Mr J. Charlton, Parade, Tunbridge Wells, has been 

 appointed the agent for the above implement. The 

 price of the 40 lb. lifter complete is £2, 15s. ; a 

 smaller instrument, for plants from 5 feet to 6 feet in 

 height, is sold, the price of which is £2, 2s. complete." 



See drawings and details in November number of 

 the 'Journal of Forestry,' 1881. 



I have not seen Dr Newington's tree-lifter, and 



