OF TRANSPLANTING. 
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by the annually increasing stem, which is pro¬ 
bably rotten before it is enclosed. Besides, a 
chopping instrument is not adapted to getting 
between branches to thin them out. These saws 
will pass between branches which are too close 
better even than the knife. One of these blades 
fixed on a light rod is the best instrument to 
clear leaders which cannot be reached with a 
knife or a hand-saw. In this case, work the 
saw in a line with the stem of the tree; not 
across it. These saws may be bought at Cole¬ 
man’s, cutler, Haymarket. 
The pruning ladder should be triangular; 
that is, to the Kentish fruit-ladder, wide at the 
base and narrow at the top, should be added a 
single prop. The lower end of the prop should 
diverge into two branches, to receive a wheel 
like that of a wheel-barrow. When lowered, the 
ladder is placed and wheeled on this prop. 
When reared, the prop being attached to the 
ladder by a rope, it is pulled towards you by 
raising the ladder by one of its lower rounds. 
If well made this ladder is perfectly wieldable, 
and safe at the height of upwards of twenty 
feet. ) 
The ladder is easily detached from the prop, 
and used singly, if required. It is the only safe 
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