CHAPTER V 



PRUNING DISEASED TREES 



DURING forty years' practical experience in the 

 management of woods and plantations, the 

 writer has often expressed the opinion that 

 rarely is sufficient attention given to the pruning 

 of diseased and injured trees. What is meant 

 is this, that in the case of stagheaded trees, 

 resulting from age or unsuitable soil and sur- 

 roundings, or such as have met with accident 

 through falling branches, lightning, insect and 

 fungoid attacks, or other causes, a judicious 

 system of pruning back dead and dying branches 

 to the living wood has a decidedly beneficial 

 effect in throwing new vigour into, and pro- 

 longing the life of, a tree. 



Good examples of what has been done in 

 this particular way may be seen in a few 



isolated instances in various parts of the 



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