THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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he taken to suppress the disease in the private plantations 
and prevent its spread from such sources of infection. 
The discussion brought out the fact that the Depart¬ 
ment had found the disease in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and 
Michigan, that it has been cleaned out in the nurseries in 
which it had been found in these states, and that as far 
as was known, the infection had not reappeared, never¬ 
theless, the Department admitted that they had received 
no recent information on this point. 
The nurserymen argued that it was unfair to quaran¬ 
tine the nurseries of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa¬ 
chusetts, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, pre¬ 
venting the shipment of pines and currants, yet allowing 
the nurseries of other states to ship their stock into the 
quarantined states, especially so, when some of the un¬ 
quarantined states had been known to he infected in re¬ 
cent years. It was suggested to the Board that if the quar¬ 
antine was extended to cover all states east of the Mis¬ 
sissippi River, the hardship of such quarantine to the 
nurserymen would he greatly lessened, and the scope of 
the work of the Forestry Department would he more far 
reaching and probably prove more effective. 
The Board will now take the matter under advisement 
and announce the decisions later. 
THE MOVING OF LARGE TREES 
By Stephen Hoyt's Sons Co. 
W HILE the large tree planting has been done in the 
past years, and is being done much more ex¬ 
tensively now than ever before, it has not 
been taken up by the nurseryman to any extent, hut is 
well proportioned either to root or top, and often just 
rolled into a hole and covered up. 
If the mover is a nurseryman he has a better know¬ 
ledge of the situation and if properly equipped is much 
A 12-inch NorwayMaple with, 10 foot fall just coming up. Notice the platform in front to receive it. 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons Co., New Canaan, Conn. 
more often left to the local contractor. The result of 
this work in many instances has been more failures than 
successes, and the cause is lack of knowledge of what 
the tree requires. 
Nurserymen as a general rule do not handle trees over 
4 to 6 inches in diameter, and many of them do not go as 
high as that. 
One reason for this is, the demand does not warrant 
their equipping themselves to handle the work profitably, 
as shipping by rail is limited, there is only a local de¬ 
mand, and if the nurseryman is not equipped to move 
large trees, the work is given to a local contractor who 
very often knows little about planting. 
The results are often very unsatisfactory, no judg¬ 
ment being used at all in taking up and planting trees of 
large size. They are moved either with or without a 
ball of earth, and in many cases the tree or trees are not 
better fitted to handle the trees properly and instruct as 
to their proper care after being planted. 
There is always a risk in moving large trees but if 
properly done it is reduced to a minimum. 
Planting trees from eight to fifteen inches in diameter 
is being done more and more successfully each year, and 
while sometimes there are failures, if proper proportions, 
with trimming and care after planting, the loss is no 
greater than with smaller trees, it is simply a question of 
doing the work properly. I have given a few illustra¬ 
tions to show the methods and the way we handle the 
work. 
Trees of large size in most cases are gathered from the 
surrounding country. The nurserymen do not grow 
them as large, and as they have never been transplanted 
results are harder to get. In this case if properly root 
pruned in advance, it will add greatly to the success. 
