Tree Transplanting Feat
Because it stood squaTely in the path of a projected road through a park in Washington, a big, full-grown magnolia tree recently took an unusual journey. Ttathcir than cut it down Government officials set a hundred men at the task of moving it. Powerful jacks raised the roots, with a protecting parcel of earth, so that the whole could bo placed upon Tollers. Whon two trucks failed to shift it the levers wero' used to force it along by hand, 50ft. ft day, towuffi its new home.- '
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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90Tree Transplanting Feat Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 5
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