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rect that error. The tree, if it be requisite, is again 

 pulled down, and the machine wheeled round to the 

 proper point ; taking care at the same time, if the root 

 be heavy, to ascertain by means of the offsets that it is 

 accurately deposited in the centre of the pit. It is then 

 allowed to gain the erect position as before. Instead of 

 this, should the root be of no great weight, it may be 

 turned round on its bottom or under-bed in the pit by 

 manual strength, the workmen being careful to lay hold 

 of great handfuls of roots and fibres, so that as little 

 breakage as possible may take place. When these things 

 are accomplished, the bracers of the root and the pole- 

 rope are detached from the machine, and it is wheeled 

 out of the pit. By common management, howeyer, and 

 attention to the directions already given, the whole of the 

 above extra labour, which creates considerable delay, may 

 be avoided, and the proper aspect for the heavy side of 

 the tree obtained at once. All that is necessary in ordi- 

 nary cases is, an inspection of the offsets, if great 

 accuracy in the position of the tree be wanted. 



We have now arrived at that part of the process of 

 planting which, as it is the most difficult to execute, so it 

 is also the most difficult to render intelligible to the 

 reader. It comprises the whole of the setting up, 

 balancing, and supporting the plant ; the distributing of 

 the roots in a proper manner in the ground ; and, in a 

 word, every other precaution on which its stability and 

 success mainly depend. These operations, therefore, 

 should never be performed except under the eye of the 

 director of the work, who should be every way com- 

 petent to superintend them. And here I cannot refrain 

 from earnestly recommending it to gentlemen to make 

 themselves fully masters of the practice, as well as the 

 principles of these various processes, so that they may be 



