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(Fig. 232), brings the pressure to bear on each, and no mechanical injury- 

 is caused to the tree. When the pole to be guyed brings little pressure 

 to bear on the wire, a lag-screw may be placed 

 in the side of the tree and the guy wires fast- 

 ened thereto. In any case, the growth of the 

 tree may continue without the common dan- 

 ger of its being girdled. Telephone com- 

 panies, who are still the main sources of this 

 injury, are only too willing to have a less 

 dangerous method demonstrated to them. 

 Public sentiment would soon control the 



situation. 



The cutting away of Fig. 231.— .4 common injury 



branches in order to 

 make an unobstructed 

 road for the moving 



resulting from the careless 

 attachment of guy-wires. 



Fig. 



232. 



of a building along a 

 highway is frequently seen. The reader has 

 probably seen once beautiful elms with one 

 of their main branches cut away, presumably 

 because it was easier to remove the branch en- 

 tirely than to vary the path of the structure 

 (Fig. 234). Adjacent property owners, knowing 

 that such offenders are guilty of an offense, and 

 that they are laying themselves liable to heavA^ 

 -A safer way fines, should obtain from the court an injunction 

 of attaching guy-wires ^ j^g^^s of which the 



to tT6€S, 



work could be delayed 

 until a judgment may be given. 



The regrading, widening, and general im- 

 provement of highways cause annually the 

 unnecessary loss of many beautiful park and 

 avenue trees. Often, with no intelligent per- 

 son to direct this part of the work, large 

 numbers of trees are removed which could 

 well have remained (Fig. 235). Because a 

 street has been widened, and a valuable tree 

 stands where it may inconvenience traffic a 

 little in the new arrangement, is not sufficient 

 justification for its removal. In such instances, 

 the situation should be carefully investigated and the evidence on 

 both sides considered. The sentiments associated with old landmarks 



Fig. 233. — The correct 

 method, if a tree must be 

 used for sucJi purposes. 



