Yesterday's common
sense ideas to help you maintain and enjoy your country home,
garden, landscape and property.
From The
Register of Rural Affairs, 1860
When young evergreens have their branches spreading out,
down to the surface of the ground, as all evergreens
should to look well, it is often quite difficult to dig
them up for transplanting, these spreading prostrate
branches impeding the work of the spade. Again, when
they are set out, the same difficulty occurs in placing
them properly in the hole, and filling in the earth.
Having recently had occasion to set out a large number
from the nursery rows, we found the work could not only
be much better done, but in about one-half the time, by
drawing the lower branches upwards, pressing them
against the tree, and securing them in this position by
passing around and tying a cord, as shown in fig. 2, the
common appearance of the tree being represented by fig.
1. The ease with which the operator could now work was
remarkable. Nurserymen, who have many such trees to dig,
would find it to their advantage to provide a number of
small straps to buckle around the trees during the
operation of removal.
