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THE planter's GUIDE. 



not to penetrate bejond tlie epidermis. After wliicli the 

 tree is ready to be put upon the machine, and drawn out 

 of the pit. 



In giving the history of the progress of the art during 

 the last century, it was stated above that Brown, the 

 celebrated landscape gardener, was the inventor of the 

 best and simplest transplanting machine now known. It 

 consists of a strong pole and two wheels, with a smaller 

 wheel occasionally used, which is fixed at the extremity 

 of the pole, and turns on a pivot. The pole operates both 

 as a powerful lever to bring down the trees to the hori- 

 zontal position, and, in conjunction with the wheels, as a 

 still more powerful conveyance to remove them to their 

 new situation. Various, however, are the machines 

 which the caprice of fashion, the love of novelty, and, in 

 some instances, the ambition of attempting a stupendous 

 scale of work, have introduced into both France and 

 England within the last century and a half. Among 

 these are the gTeat machine of Versailles, constructed by 

 order of Louis XIV., with its broad and powerful wheels 

 and platforms ; the high three-wheeled machine of Eng- 

 land during the last century, of ponderous make, with its 

 platform also, for transferring trees of vast size and 

 weight in an upright position ; the oblong machine of the 

 same period, with four, and sometimes six low wheels, for 

 the same gigantic purpose : these, and such like costly 

 implements, more fitted for show than daily use, it were 

 needless to enumerate, and still more needless to describe. 

 My sole object being a park-practice, to which despatch 

 and success are the chief recommendations, I prefer the 

 simple machine of Brown, with some improvements which 

 I have made upon it, to all other contrivances. It is to 

 that machine, therefore, that the directions for the trans- 

 portation about to be given are understood to refer. 



