Transplanting big trees 



EDWARD S. DRAPER 



Landscape Architect 



A Practical Means of Getting the Feeling of Age Into a New Home — Responsibility 

 of the Owner's After-Care for Ultimate Success — Work for the Winter Season 



^VEN one shade tree in association with a dwelling 

 creates a certain impression of stability and " settled- 

 ness" so generally felt that it needs no emphasizing. 



' How many are the oldtime homes indeed where 

 the branches of a patriarchal Elm or Sycamore, extend- 

 ing broadly to shade both house and dooryard, represent the 

 only bit of planting ever undertaken! And yet where can 

 be found, a more inviting and comforting aspect than these 

 same old homes present, or one conveying more completely 

 that substantial quality that is the very essence of the home? 

 It is without doubt because this stability is so unreservedly 

 felt that efforts — almost frantic sometimes — are made to 

 dress up and adorn new developments as well as new homes 

 with shrubbery and flowers, under the impression that these 

 will quickly afford a modicum thereof. 



But nothing can take the place of trees, or render the ser- 

 vice that trees render both in the landscape picture taken as 



a remote whole, and to the fortunate mortals who enjoy the 

 intimacy of their immediate leafy presence. So it is subject 

 for felicitation that the enterprise of handling a well grown 

 tree is now well understood, and therefore no more the risky 

 thing it was not so very long ago; for this means that at least 

 one good sized tree will more and more often be brought to 

 shelter the barrenness of the newly built dwelling and give it 

 that coveted homelike atmosphere as soon as the grading 

 is done, if one wishes. 



Even in parts of the country that have been supposed to be 

 unfavorable to the transplanting of large material it has been 

 and is now being done — as witness the tree moving campaign 

 that has been most successfully carried out during the past 

 three seasons at Myers Park, a residential suburb of Char- 

 lotte, N. C. Here streets that were exposed to the full glare 

 of the sun became overnight, as it were, shady avenues, while 

 the grounds of many of the home owners underwent the same 



EASING A TREE INTO ITS NEW HOME 

 Weil headed, sturdy specimens grown in the open 

 should be chosen — and handled like day-old chicks! 











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NO TREE NOR SHADE HERE LAST SUMMER! 

 But the one arrived in its sleep, during the 

 long night of winter, and brought the other 



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