SECTION II. 



385 



England ; and it might have been added with equal truth that it pre- 

 vails, more or less, in every other part of the British empire, where the 

 transferring of large trees is known and practised. 



After all the investigations which I have been able to make into 

 the practice of such English planters as the Marquisses of Londonderry 

 and Stafford, Mr Gibson, and Sir R. Arkwright in the north, the Duke 

 of Portland, Marquis of Hertford, Lord Caernarvon, Lord Grenville, 

 Sir James Gardiner, Mr Thistlethwaite, and Mr Long in the south. Sir 

 Aubrey De Vere Hunt, and others in Ireland, who have removed wood 

 with various degrees of success, it appears that they all adhere more or 

 less to the mutilating system : that they take up the trees, after 

 lightening the top, with short and incompetent roots, but with a great 

 mass or ball of earth attached to it : that they raise it with a strong 

 crane, upon a low platform, with wheels, or rather rollers, still lower : 

 and after conveying it upright and with much difficulty, they have as 

 great difficulty in propping and supporting it, after being planted. 

 The only improvement practised seems to be the cutting round the 

 roots, according to Lord Fitzharding's method ; but that is often done 

 in the season immediately preceding the removal, when little benefit 

 can be derived from it. 



By this method, it is obvious that immense labour, and consequently 

 very considerable expense, is incurred in the removal of wood, and far 

 more than should be incurred in an art calculated to be generally use- 

 ful. In fact, the objection of difficulty and expense united^ is quite suffi- 

 cient to counteract or limit the adoption of any art, however valuable, 

 and render it unpopular with the public. 



Note XVI. Page 49. 



The following is a list of thirty-four of the largest trees and shrubs, 

 with their height and girth, removed by Dr Graham : — 



TT„. , . Gii'th at 1 



■^^^S^i*- foot high. 



Feet. Inch. Feet. Inch. 



Common Hawthorn {Cratcegm Oxyacantlia) . . 23 0 2 10 



Scarlet-flowering Hawthorn (Cratcegus Oxyacantlia 



var) 



Great American Hawthorn {Cratcegus Coccinea) 

 Spotted Hawthorn {Cratcegus Pimctata) 

 Cut-leaved Alder {Alnus Glutinosa var.) 

 Weeping Ash {Fraxinus Excelsior var.) 

 Heart-leaved Poplar {Populus Canclicans) 

 Various-leaved Ash {Fraxinus Heteropkylla) 

 Flowering Ash {Fraxinus Ornus) . 

 Common Lime {Tilia Europcea) 



20 9 1 9| 



20 6 1 7 



17 0 2-4 



43 0 3 21 



34 0 2 10 



29 0 2 1 



34 9 2 74 



37 8 3 llf 



37 8 2 6 



