HE foregoing pictures, we believe, tell their own story, and 
we do not wish to weaken the argument by written words, 
except to make known a few facts that cannot be told in 
picture. The real fascination of carrying out such a 
project from the beginning, as shown in the first picture of 
this booklet, lifts the matter far out of a mere business proposition. 
The careful selection of specimen trees and plants used in each 
day’s operations changed that part of the landscape from a place 
without interest to a planting of apparently years of growth, and re- 
futed the old notion that one has to wait until old age to see their 
plantings mature. 
In the successful transplanting of the magnificent Copper Beech, 
which had grown for at least sixty years in an old farm yard, two 
miles from where it now stands, we proved our ability to do a diffi- 
cult thing. The tree, as we lifted it, weighed about twenty tons. It 
required a specially built flat wagon to carry it, and six of the best 
thoroughbred Percherons to draw it. We have given it the most 
