CHAPTER XII 



ACCIDENTS AND DISEASES TO WHICH 

 TREES ARE LIABLE 



AMONGST our commonly cultivated trees, it 

 may safely be assumed that every one is liable 

 to some malady, disease, or accident, the 

 various species, however, being in the main 

 subject to different diseases and different kinds 

 of accident. In the accompanying alpha- 

 betically arranged list, the notes have refer- 

 ence only to such trees as are commonly 

 cultivated in this country, with special notice 

 of the dangers to which they are subjected, 

 and the best means of dealing with the 

 attendant evils. 



Acacia. Though one of our most beautiful 

 flowering trees, the acacia is short-lived, and, 

 owing to its brittle wood, branches are often 



broken away in stormy weather. Dead 



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