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water being applied to settle it, until every vacuity 

 be filled up. This management is necessary to en- 

 sure no hollows being left. 



During these proceedings, the director examines 

 the position of the tree by means of the offsets, and 

 if he observes that it is not perfectly upright, re- 

 course is had for adjustment to the transverse ropes, 

 which, at this stage of the business, by putting five 

 or six stout hands to work them, will still be able 

 to command the tree. 



" By the above method of giving stability to the 

 tree," says Sir Henry Steuart, " before any cover 

 whatever is laid upon the roots, (which, I believe, 

 is new and peculiar to my practice), the discerning 

 reader will see that a complete safeguard against 

 the wind is provided, without injury to the growth 

 of the plant. This is truly the planting of the tree ; 

 all else belongs to the distribution and the covering 

 of the roots." 



The next part of the operation is the distribution 

 of the roots, which, having been first bundled up, 

 and then merely untied during the performance of 

 the work now completed, will, by this time, be in a 

 state of considerable disorder. Now, therefore, they 

 must be carefully disentangled by the workmen, 

 and stretched out in the most regular manner from 



