SECTION IX. 



PLANTING OF THE TEEES IN THEIR NEY/ SITUATION. 



In the foregoing section we haye seen tlie method by 

 which the tree is taken up and transported on the 

 machine ; let us now follow it to its destination in the 

 open park. 



It has been above observed that, for the safety and 

 success of the operation, the rate of moving along the 

 ground cannot be too slow. At that already pointed out, 

 of two miles and a half an hour, the difference between 

 travelling a mile, and half a mile, does not very materially 

 increase the labour of transportation. If the pit have 

 been prepared a twelvemonth beforehand, the opening of 

 it now is an easy business ; and for that purpose, should 

 it not have been done previously to the taking-up, 

 two or three workmen should be sent forward to throw 

 out the earth regularly on all sides, to the depth of 

 fourteen or fifteen inches at first, leaving, next to the 

 inside edge, a space of eighteen inches or two feet clear ; 

 so that the excavation can be enlarged, if requisite, with- 

 out the necessity of removing the mound thrown up. 



When the machine has got within forty or fifty yards 

 of the place, it is proper to halt the horses, in order to 

 make two necessary arrangements, the one in which the 

 root, and the other in which the top is concerned. The 

 director of the work first rapidly measures with his eye 



