TREES FOR LONG ISLAND 



TREE-MOVING 



Most of our tree-moving is of this character. Four horses, and trees 

 with roots and tops spreading 30 feet. With our well-trained men and 

 teams, this is a simple and quick operation, which we can perform 

 with economy and certainty. 



Residence of Mr. C. A. Coffin, Locust Valley, L. I. 

 Each bundle of roots contains several hundred small roots. These 

 are spread out and occupy an area 30 feet wide. Area of such a circle 

 is 675 square feet. Had this tree been moved in the old way with a ball 

 of roots 10 feet in diameter, the area would be 75 feet or one-ninth 

 as much. 



The time to do tree-moving is a matter to be arranged 

 by correspondence, according to the climate, soil, condition 

 of the roads and species of trees. In general, deciduous trees 

 may be moved either in the fall or in the spring. From 



New York southward they may be moved all winter by mulching the ground to keep out the frost. In a case of 

 necessity, deciduous trees can be moved in midsummer, using, however, a large ball of earth and wrapping the 

 outer roots carefully to keep them damp while the foliage is so rapidly drawing moisture. 



Large evergreens have to have a ball of earth because the foliage is drawing sap from the roots all the year, 

 therefore they may be moved at any time. In moving Pines and Firs from May 10 to July 15, the new growth is 

 liable to wilt and curve down. It does not injure the tree, except to give it an unusual appearance for the balance 

 of the year. In August and September, and in December, January and February, we move many large evergreens. 

 Send for Hicks' "Evergreens for August and September Planting," and "Planting Large Evergreens in Winter." 



For moving large deciduous trees, we have developed the method of dissecting out the roots for a spread of 

 30 to 45 feet in width, leaving a ball of earth in the center, 6 to 9 or more feet in diameter, as shown on page 96. 



The old method was to take only the central ball of earth, 6 to 8 feet in diameter. This resulted in the wide- 

 spread opinion that moving large trees was a failure, or at best a temporary expedient because they grew slowly, 

 looked unhappy, and small trees, the size usually transplanted, quickly overtook them. This old method with the 

 ball of earth 6 to 8 feet in diameter on a Maple or Elm, 8 inches in diameter, 25 feet high, and 12 feet spread, is 

 sufficient to keep the tree alive and in fertile, moist soil, or where properly watered, trees recover after a while and 

 make a fair growth ; but it is unnecessarily expensive to move the heavy ball. 



On larger trees, such as we move, 14 to 24 inches in diameter, 40 to 70 feet high, with 30 to 50 feet spread of 

 branches, such a ball of earth, 6 to 8 feet in diameter is not sufficient, and the trees are very liable to die or to lose 

 part of their top or to look sick and thin for many years. The many failures widely scattered over the country 

 resulting from moving large shade trees with inadequate roots, has been the greatest factor in preventing people 

 from undertaking the planting of large trees. 



Whatever else the American people want, they invent the methods and secure the capital necessary. In art and 



architecture, transportation, and other 

 engineering lines, this is especially the 

 case. In making expenditures for 

 grading, garden walls and terraces, 

 roads, streams, lakes and fountains, 

 the results fail to reach their most beau- 

 tiful development, because of the lack 

 of large trees. 



Landscape is of three dimensions: 

 length, breadth and height. Planting 

 only small trees results in a ground- 

 plan for the future. No other work of 

 art suffers this delay. Planting large 

 trees gives elevation against the sky 

 and broad shadows on the lawn. It 



, ^. . , ^ ^ , . , . . frames beautiful vistas and shuts out 



Loadmg tree-movers on cars. A large part of our work requires smppm? apparatus. nnHpeirahlp \nVwc; 



It may take a week's time for it to arrive. Therefore, it is best to arrange for such work uuuebird-uie views, 

 early in the season. This job took five tree-movers and continued all winter. 



The method we have invented for digging large trees. We start dig- 

 ging 15 to 20 feet away from the center, digging down to below the roots 

 and make an undercut, dissect out the soil with the picking bar, which 

 is shown beside the fork. The soil is also picked out with the 

 fork which has had the tines rounded to lessen scraping the 

 roots. As the roots are uncovered, we tie them in bundles and 

 bend them up out of the way. We proceed in this manner untying 

 the bundles of roots, straightening them out and tying them 

 up again, keeping as many as possible unbroken. Every root 

 has many chances to be broken off, and it is only by skillful, 

 patient work that enough roots are preserved to make tree- 

 moving a success. There are some soils on which it is not 

 practical to get enough roots to move a tree successfully. 



