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MISCELLANEOUS. 



PT. II. 



and that, when a ball of earth is taken up with a trans- 

 planted tree, the parts of the roots contained in the 

 ball are infinitely more efficient for the supply of sap 

 than five times their length of root not in perfect con- 

 tact with the earth. But certain it is that, by taking 

 a large ball of earth, with ' the tree-lifter,' I have 

 transplanted tress of about twenty-five feet in height in 

 every month in the year, without a single failure, and 

 without the plant feehng its removal so much as a 

 greenhouse plant does potting, that is without a single 

 leaf drooping, even in the hottest days of June, July, 

 and August, though the plant was unwatered, and with 

 the same growth on the tree, in the next and following 

 years, as on those in the plantation from which it was 

 taken. 



In 1846, I sent the following to the Hampshire 

 paper, which appeared 13th June: 'Anyone taking 

 interest in vegetable physiology, who happens to be 

 in the neighbourhood of Brookwood Park, is invited to 

 inspect a tree transplanted on Wednesday, the 3rd 

 instant. On that day the thermometer stood at 80° in 

 the shade, and at 120° in the sun ; and there was a 

 parching east wind. This extraordinary heat continued 

 for five days, and is now only beginning to abate. Yet 

 although the tree is in full foliage, not a single leaf has 

 flagged. The height of the tree is 27 ft., its girth 1 ft. 

 10 in. Every root is cut at the distance of about two 

 feet from the tree. It can, therefore, have few ends of 

 roots to feed it. That it is not supplied by the leaves, as 



