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will thrive on a much smaller root system 

 than deciduous trees of the same size, 

 because needle-shaped leaves evaporate 

 much less than the broad leaves of decidu- 

 ous trees. Pine and Cedar need but one- 

 fifth to one-tenth as much water as Maple 

 and Elm, as shown by the experiments by 

 German Foresters. 



The big evergreens we move are 

 smaller than the big deciduous trees, but 

 cost much, more because of the greater 

 weight of soil it is necessary to take up 

 with them. 



If you want us to move a big tree 

 in soil where a sufficient proportion of the 

 fine roots cannot be saved, we will tell you 

 so and decline to move the tree. Many 

 people wish us to move a tree that is 

 nearby, when better trees or better soil 

 can be found several miles distant. In such 

 cases we tell them so. 



Do not think, because you are not on Long Island, or have not enough work for a tree- 

 mover to be shipped by rail to move trees in your vicinity, that you cannot have large trees. Below 

 is a barge load, all from our nursery, containing four Pin Oaks from 32 to 40 feet high, three Pin 

 Oaks 22 feet high, two Purple Beeches 27 and 30 feet high, two Lindens 25 feet high and sixteen 

 Norway Maples 25 feet high. These were loaded on several tree-movers, run onto a barge and 

 towed up the Hudson River. 



Later, the tree-movers were used to bring in large Elms 50 feet high, from the vicinity, and 

 then went on to another contract sixteen miles back from the river, to move large deciduous and 

 evergreen trees. 



Barge load of twenty-seven iarge trees from our nursery and five tree-movers loaded at 

 Glenwood, Hempstead Harbor, and shipped up the Hudson. 



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Front view of tree on mover. From the wide, central 

 mass of closely matted roots and ball of soil in the center, 

 thousands of roots radiate, wrapped in the long bundles. The 

 upper ones are bent down to go under electric wires and the 

 lower ones bent under the axle. 



The two circles show the comparative area of our system 

 with over thirty feet of roots, and the old system with eight feet. 



