Landscape of Norway and Scarlet Maples, Colorado Blue Spruce and Boxwood. A complete planting by means of the 
Tree-Movers on a site cleared from a dense forest. " Meudon," the estate of Mr. Wm. D. Guthrie, Locust Valley, L. I. Photo- 
graphed fifteen months after planting. 
The Moving of Large Deciduous Trees 
The invention of our Tree-movers in their present perfection is the result of a slow growth. 
Thirty-five years ago this firm moved trees of large size, some of the first being to the then new 
arboretum of the late Charles A. Dana, at Dosoris, and others to the village of Garden City, then 
being built on the treeless prairie 
of the Hempstead Plains, 
We have made a vast improve- 
ment as regards the size of tree 
which can be moved, and in the 
economy and safety of the method. 
The far-famed stone roads of Long 
Island have been an important 
factor in the development of tree- 
moving, aiding in transporting such 
heavy weights twenty to fifty miles. 
The moving of a tree is a surgical 
operation. The small roots are its 
feeders ; in moving they are dis- 
connected from the original site 
and re-established. The moving 
requires expert and careful opera- 
tors to pick out the small roots 
of the tree. From these small 
roots branch out the root -hairs 
and rootlets which gather up the 
food and water. 
After the outer feeding-roots are freed the tree is undermined and the central ball of earth, 7 to 
12 feet in diameter, cleaved from the subsoil. This central ball of earth contains mainly the large 
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One of the Hicks' Patent Tree-Movers.— We have invented the method 
of digging- which preserves the small feeding roots. The roots have a spread 
of 30 or 40 feet. After digging, the tree is grasped by the hinged cradle and 
swung over horizontally by a screw. In this position trees may pass under 
electric wires. 
