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contact is continued, and the pressure against 
the earth even increased. I imagine that this 
close contact of the roots with the earth is very- 
essential for the absorption of moisture; and 
that, when a ball of earth is taken up with a 
transplanted tree, the parts of the roots con¬ 
tained in the ball are infinitely more efficient 
for the supply of sap than five times their length 
of root not in perfect contact with the earth. 
But certain it is, that, by taking a large ball of 
earth, with “ the tree-lifter,” I have transplanted 
trees of about twenty-five feet in height in every 
month in the year, without a single failure, and 
without the plant feeling its removal so much as 
a greenhouse plant does potting, that is, with¬ 
out a single leaf drooping, even in the hottest 
days of June, July, and August, though the 
plant was unwatered, and with the same growth 
on the tree, in the next and following years, as 
on those in the plantation from which it was 
taken. 
In 1846, I sent the following to the Hamp¬ 
shire paper, which appeared 13 th June : “ Any 
one taking interest in vegetable physiology, who 
happens to be in the neighbourhood of Brook- 
wood Park, is invited to inspect a tree trans¬ 
planted on Wednesday, the 3rd instant. On 
