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PRACTICAL PART 
no means necessary. To transplant without the 
ball of earth, and not to water, for at least two 
summers, is hopeless. This is a great expense, 
besides staking, and tying, which plants with 
the ball of earth do not need. The growth of 
trees transplanted with “ the tree-lifter ” is not 
checked; but without a ball of earth, trees 
transplanted, with whatever care, or at whatever 
expense, are checked in their growth for eight 
or ten years, and if they do not die, they become 
living scarecrows. 
In fact, trees transplanted by the tree-lifter 
are very much in the same situation as those 
prepared for transplanting, as it is called, in the 
old-fashioned way, by cutting a trench round 
them. This method was originated in the time 
of Charles the Second, by Lord Fitz-Harding, 
as Evelyn tells us. But the trees transplanted 
by the tree-lifter gain the great advantage of 
making their new roots in the ground where 
they are to remain for ever, and escape the in¬ 
juries of a subsequent removal. 
The best months for transplanting the gene¬ 
rality of English trees, with the ball of earth, 
are July, August, and September. 
Over the nursery plant, as a single tree, the 
transplanted tree has the advantage of a start of 
