OF TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES. S21 



position, may present what was formerly its weather 

 side to the opposite quarter. By thus altering its 

 aspect, the part of its top most deficient in branches 

 will be materially improved afterwards, and this, in 

 fact, is the surest artifice that can be employed, in 

 order to give it a regular and uniform head. 



Before the tree be placed in its site, it is neces- 

 sary that some means be taken to ascertain its posi- 

 tion. For this purpose, fix a stake exactly in the 

 centre of the pit, and let two of the workmen retire 

 about six yards from its edge, one on the north or 

 south, and the other on the east or west side of it. 

 Each of them must then fix a pole in the ground, and 

 observe what tree or other object falls in the same 

 line with it and the stake at the centre of the pit, 

 where the lines thus described will intersect each 

 other. The stake in the pit is then to be with- 

 drawn, and a piece of green turf put in its place, so 

 that the tree may be dropped with mathematical 

 precision on the proper place. 



All these preparations being finished, as they will 

 be very rapidly if the workmen are well trained, the 

 machine is to be brought forward till the wheels are 

 in contact, or nearly so, with the earth thrown out 

 of the pit. The horses are then to be taken off, 

 and the machine brought up right on the centre by 



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