THE 
TREE-LIFTER, 
FART I. 
PRACTICAL PART OF TRANSPLANTING. 
ADVANTAGES OF THE SYSTEM. 
Among the advantages of transplanting with the 
“Tree-lifter” may be reckoned its cheapness. 
Its simplicity is such that the whole may be 
performed, and even single-handed, by a common 
day labourer. One man may plant one tree per 
day, of from twenty-five to thirty feet in height. 
To transplant trees without the ball of earth 
requires great skill, care, labour, and expense in 
tracing out the small fibres of the roots, whose 
extreme points, with their supposed spongioles, 
could by no delicacy of operation be retained, 
and which after all are nearly valueless. All 
transplanted trees are the better for being 
watered; but with the ball of earth this is by 
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