P A R K A N D C EMET ER Y. 
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THE TRANSPLANTING OF LARGE TREES. 
{Translated from Moeller s Deutsche Gaertner-Zeitung) 
The transplanting of trees of considerable size is 
an operation of great importance not only in the 
laying- out of parks and grounds and in making al- 
terations in them, but likewise in filling up such 
breaches as will occur in the course of time in the 
rows of trees lining streets, squares and roads. It is, 
in fact, one of the main problems which the landscape 
g«rdener has to solve. In creating new effects and 
vistas, in enlarging existing landscape views and pro- 
ducing new ones, in thinning out clumps of trees too 
densely grown, as well as in shutting out such vistas 
as may, by some change in conditions, have become 
unseemly and detrimental to the general effect, it will 
in some cases be advisable to not merely use the de- 
structive axe for felling the trees, but to likewise 
fransplaiit those of the more valuable kind and of 
perfect growth which must make room for the re- 
quired change. As a rule, nearly all of the larger 
or older parks or grounds contain one or more trees 
of rare beauty which ought to be preserved, and 
many a tree that attracted attention by some sharpl\- 
r NO. 1. GERMAN TRUCK FOR TRANSPLANTING I.ARGE 
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characteristic qualities, great age, rarity, or pictur- 
esque shape, would finally, under the stress of urgent 
requirements, have fallen a victim to the strokes of 
the axe, had it not been saved from destruction by 
careful and conscientious transplanting. 
All trees, excepting of course, the giants of the 
forests, can be transplanted, provided all the prelim- 
inary conditions which guarantee complete success, 
are in evidence. It would take up too much space 
to give a closer consideration to these preliminary 
conditions in this article, and we shall, therefore, re- 
fer the reader to a few publications in which this 
subject is thoroughly and e.xhaustively treated, viz: 
E. Petzold, “Die Landschaftsgartnerei” (Landscape 
gardening), a HKV^t interc.<ting work from the pen 
of a prominent expert in this line, and the first part 
of that classic of gardening : “Andeutungen fiber 
Landschaftsgartnerei” (Points on Landscape garden- 
ing), by Prince von Pfickler-Muskau, which is now 
being published in serial parts which may be had 
separately. 
NO. 2. A COPPER BEECH ON TPIE TRANSPLANTING 
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