

CHAPTER IV 



INJURED BARK ON ROOT AND STEM 



LOOSENED and injured bark is most frequently 

 brought about by careless felling and haulage, 

 injury from a passing cart or wheelbarrow, and 

 in not a few instances may be directly caused by 

 frost, snow, lightning, fires, insect and fungoid 

 attacks, or growing the trees in unfavourable 

 surroundings as to soil and situation. Ground 

 game, as also rats and mice, do much damage 

 to the bark of young trees. 



From whatever cause arising, early attention 

 to injured bark is to be recommended, and that 

 not only on the score of health, but appearance 

 of the tree as well. All loose bark should 

 therefore be carefully cut away, and the wood, 

 when perfectly dry, coated with coal-tar. In 

 removing the injured portions, cut well back 

 into the living bark, so as to ensure rapid and 



uniform healing, remembering that bark that 



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