1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: William Seaward

51. SEAWARD, WILLIAM, Oulton, Wakefield — Designer.

Tree remover, for transplanting large shrubs and trees.

[When the earth has been removed round the roots of the tree, so that a large and compact ball remains, the plate is placed as far under the ball as it will admit; the longest rope is then crooked on to the ring at the corner of the plate at the furthest distance from the ball, and passed round the under part of it, until it returns to the opposite corner; the power is then applied to the end of the rope, by which means the tree is easily removed to the centre of the plate in its erect position, and therefore conveyed to its intended place.]

Tree supporter, to support cypresses, arbor-vitae, and shrubs, the branches of which are liable to be bent and broken down by snow, etc.

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