The Moving and Transplanting of 
Big Trees 
Being iu close conneetion with the American Big Tree Moving Co. wo have made a specialty 
of this branch of tlio nursery Imsiness, and every year it is growing in importance and value. 
By the moving of large trees as practiced by us it is possible to create effects that were not 
dreamed of a short time ago, and, now that we have demonstrated its possiliilities, we have often 
been called upon to convert in a short time a barren piece of the countryside into a place which, 
by the slow growth of nature, would take at least fifty years to produce. 
We pay a great deal of attention to the growing of large stock for transplanting, and by care- 
ful and consistent cultivation, combined with frequent moving in the nursery, produce decidu- 
ous and evergreen trees with great quantities of fibrous roots, insuring their safe removal at al- 
most any time of the year, under proper conditions. 
One year before the photograph reproduced on page 20 was taken, the property in the pic- 
ure was a bleak and barren field. By means of the extra-large slock of Norway JIaples we 
supply for street planting and the judicious transplanting of large deciduous and evergreen 
trees, we converted the place into a home, such as could have been made only by the growth 
of a generation of years. Thus it will be seen that it is possible to transform a wilderness in- 
to a thing of beauty, and no one need be deterred from building a country home I)y reason of a 
lack of trees and shrubbery in the jiarticular place they desire to build. All the prospective 
buyer need do is to supply the place, and we will furnish plans, specifications and material for 
its planting on any scale. 
We also make a feature of transplanting trees from one part of the country to another, 
DO matter how large they may be. Show us the tree and we will place it anywhere you wish. 
We shall be pleased to hear from those interested in the subject of transplanting large 
trees and shrublicry, as with the improved machinery we have for the purpose, and our mag- 
nificent stock of material, we are in a position to execute the largest, as well as the smallest, 
schemes of planting. 
8 ROSE HILL NURSERIES 
