. The book of the garden. Gardening. PLANTING. 385 preserve them, which, Mr M'Glashan remarks, is still a very undecided question, it can be easily done by finding out their position with piercers, and driving a cutter on either side of them, and thus preserving them entire. Although 10 feet is the size described here (as it has already been done), it can either be reduced or enlarged as the tree or operator may require. Fig. M*6LASHAN S TRANSPLANTING MACHINE. SIDE ELEVATION. We think this machine would be much im- proved, and rendered more generally useful, if the frame were extended in
. The book of the garden. Gardening. PLANTING. 385 preserve them, which, Mr M'Glashan remarks, is still a very undecided question, it can be easily done by finding out their position with piercers, and driving a cutter on either side of them, and thus preserving them entire. Although 10 feet is the size described here (as it has already been done), it can either be reduced or enlarged as the tree or operator may require. Fig. M*6LASHAN S TRANSPLANTING MACHINE. SIDE ELEVATION. We think this machine would be much im- proved, and rendered more generally useful, if the frame were extended in length, so that, in- stead of the ball being square, it might be oblong in shape. To render the machine wider than 4 feet would be disadvantageous, because it could not be made to travel on walks or nar- row roads, and would be difficult to introduce amongst bushes and other trees. Lengthening it out to the extent of 4 feet more would present no difficulty in those respects ; while by doing so, instead of a ball 4 feet square, we could have one 4 feet (the present breadth) by 8 feet in length, securing upon two sides a much greater length of uninjured roots. The spade-shaped cutters are as good as anything that can be de- vised when the intended ball is of a size to include all or at hast a sufficient numher of roots, according to the size of the tree to be removed; but to remove a tree with a greater extent of roots, the ball should be cleared all round with spades and picks in the usual manner, saving as many roots as possible, tying them together in bundles, and disposing of them in such a way that they would be secured against accident during the operation. This being done, the ball should be undermined, and the tap or down- ward-growing roots cut off with a long chisel- shaped instrument, instead of tearing them up and breaking them by main force. When the ball is thus prepared, if broad grippers, in form like the letter L, were intro- duced along the sides of the ball, j
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