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TREE-MOVERS 



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We brought to our nurseries 680 Cedars in four weeks with this outfit. Trees were mostly 20 to 30 feet high. The traction engine hauls as 

 much as twenty-four to thirty horses, and does not get tired on a twelve hours' journey under full load. We grow such trees two to more years in 

 our nurseries and keep them trimmed, cultivated, watered and fertilized. They are then in the best possible condition to plant. You can get good 

 results, however, by moving them direct from the wild growth. We can send whatever apparatus will do the work most cheaply. 



porous, and the spaces between the soil-particles become saturated with water, driving out the air. The roots then 

 rot, and the ground sours. The bark of the roots becomes bhie-black and smells sour. The soil is also a 



blackish color, rather than a chocolate-brown, and smells sour. Even where the drainage is naturally good, 



the soil may become sour this way from the mere fact that 3 feet of loam "'^ holds moisture. The import- 



ant thing is to know that the soil is right at the beginning and to ^ keep it right and not too wet. 



Church of the Advent, Westbury. The two trees are large Pines planted one year before they were photographed. We have moved a 

 nimiber of large white Pines of similar size, and after several years they are all growing 



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