_Editor Mayflower:_
I "assisted" a few days ago at a tree-moving, if assisting means
standing shivering in the snow watching eight men and four horses try to
remove a White Thorn tree (_Crataegus coccinea_) from the frozen ground.
The earth had been dug away about three feet each way from the trunk in
order to preserve the root-ball intact, though truth to tell, one root
went too deep and was ruthlessly cut. By means of skids, a stone-sled, a
jack-chain and much audible exertion, the tree was finally started on
its journey. Owing to bad management, a beautiful Tulip-tree was
sacrificed to open up a road for the royal procession, but the men
thought nothing of that--it was only a tree in the woods. In the yard a
great hole was waiting, with a deep layer of manure in the bottom; and
here, with more exertion, the tree was set, due regard being paid to the
points of the compass. It was a low spreading tree and certainly worth
the moving, and held in its branches a trim little nest. But "there are
no birds in last year's nest"--no little bird to say whether or no this
small tree will take kindly to its transplanting. So it will be watched
with mingled hope and misgiving.--_Mrs. M. H. L._
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