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APPENDIX. 
I. 
Notes on transplanting trees. Reasons for frequent failures in removing large trees. Direc- 
tions for performing this operation. Selection of subjects. Preparing trees for removal. 
Transplanting evergreens. 
There is no subject on which the professional horticulturist is more 
frequently consulted in America, than transplanting trees. And, as it 
is an essential branch of Landscape Gardening, indeed perhaps the most 
important and necessary one to be practically understood in the improve- 
ment or embellishment of new country residences, we shall offer a few 
remarks here, with the hope of rendering it a more easy and successful 
practice in the hands of amateurs. 
Although there are great numbers of acres of beautiful woods and 
groves, the natural growth of the soil, in most of the older states, yet a 
considerable portion of our ordinary country seats are meagerly clothed 
with trees, while many beautiful sites for residences have, in past years, 
been so denuded, that the nakedness of their appearance constitutes a se- 
rious objection to them as places of residence. To be able, therefore, to 
transplant, from natural copses, trees of ten or twenty years growth, is so 
universally a desideratum, that great numbers of experiments are made 
annually with this view ; — though few persons succeed in obtaining what 
they desire, viz,, the immediate effect of wood ; partly from a want of 
knowledge of the nature of vegetable physiology, and partly from mal- 
practice in the operation of removal itself. 
When the admirably written “Planter’s Guide,” by Sir Henry Steu- 
art, made its appearance some ten years ago, not only describing minutely 
