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Mature at Forty. Within two human generations this silver linden has reached its present splendor. The flagpole is fifty feet high. (Photograph: Princeton Nurseries)
Balling and Burlapping by professionals at Howe Nurseries, Pennington, N. J, Such work goes rapidly with many hands in the act. One man can get the same results if he takes his time. Nursery trees like these have been root-pruned in previous The spades go down around.
The root-ball comes out. The burlap bag is formed. A row of London planes ready to move.
A Neighborhood Menaced. Full of faulty crotches and trunk cavities, top-heavy with overgrowth and lush foliage, this silver maple nearly a hundred feet high menaces life, limb, architecture, and traffic. Huge yard trees, especially of such brittle species, should be severely topped and pruned, and multiple cabled. Note how this treacherous monster dwarfs the human lives beneath it. |
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