CONTENTS. 



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circumstances of plants and soils. — 2d. Preparation of trees in 

 large masses. Great utility of transplanting nurseries. — Belts 

 and clumps in the style of Brown, furnish admirable materials. 

 Mr Thomas White. Superior talents and ingenuity of that 

 artist. Mode of treating these materials. — Style of forming the 

 nurseries. Successful example from the practice at Allanton 

 House. — Cultivation of transplanting nurseries an improvement, 

 and in no view a deterioration of woods. - - 157-173 



SECTION VIII. 



TAKING-UP AND TRANSPOUTATION OF THE TREES. 



Superior management of roots, according to the preservative system. 

 Misapprehension of Marshall and others. — Peculiar implements 

 necessary to take up minute and fibrous roots. The tree-picker, 

 plate IV. fig. 4. — Instructions for the process of taking-up. 

 Injudicious to hurry that nice operation. Immense importance 

 of preserving the capillary rootlets. Danger in leaving roots 

 long uncovered. Remarkable difference in the habits of trees. — 

 Raising the tree from the pit, and great improvement in the pro- 

 cess. — Idea of the transplanting machines known in Europe. 

 Superiority of Brown's machine, for dispatch and park-practice. 

 — Machining the tree. The machiner's, a duty of nicety and 

 difficulty. Details of the operation. — Machiner acts as steers- 

 man. Tree draw^n out of the pit, and balance-men sent to the 

 top. — Delineation of the machine in motion, on the balancing 

 principle, plate III. Third wheel unnecessary, unless for very 

 heavy work. — Transportation sometimes exposed to dangerous 

 accidents. Account of an extraordinary one. — Light improved 

 machines recommended for park-practice ; also an experienced 

 maker near Allanton House. Two machines most desirable. — 

 Description of three sizes. Diagram. Plate IV. Specification 

 of the large-sized machine used at Allanton. — Of the small-sized. 

 — Of the intermediate-sized. — Transportation of underwood. 

 Little difficulty attending it. — Machines sufficiently large for the 

 use of Scotland. . - . . . 174-203 



