320 SIR HENRY STEU art's METHOD 



signal being then given, the machine starts, and if, 

 after proceeding a few yards, the load does not seem 

 to he properly balanced, it must he re-adjusted by 

 sending up some of the workmen to the top, or other 

 artifice. 



Planting of the Trees in their new Situations, 



If the pit has been trenched a year previously, as 

 above directed, the opening of it now will be easy, and 

 some of the workmen should be sent before for this 

 purpose, as soon as the machine with the tree is fairly 

 under way. Let the earth be thrown out regularly 

 on all sides to the depth of fourteen or fifteen inches 

 at first, leaving next the inside edge a space of 

 eighteen inches or two feet clear. When the ma- 

 chine approaches, it will be easy to determine by the 

 eye whether this be deep enough, and if not, the 

 deficiency must be mended, making, if the tree is 

 tap-rooted, the centre somewhat deeper than the 

 sides, and scooping out the earth in the shape of a 

 cup. The planter should always remember that it 

 is advantageous to set the tree as shallow as possi- 

 ble, that there may be sufficient pabulum for the 

 roots. 



The machine ought to approach the pit in such a 

 direction, as that the tree, when raised to a vertical 



