CHAPTER I 



INTERIOR STRUCTURE OF A TREE WHAT FOLLOWS EXPOSURE OF 

 "CELL SYSTEM" How MILLIONS OF TREES HAVE BEEN RUINED- 

 HOW AMPUTATION SHOULD BE PERFORMED THE CARE OF THE 

 WOUND -How NATURE BUILDS A TREE THE POSSIBLE 

 AGE OF TREES NEVER YET DEMONSTRATED DESTRUC- 

 TIVE WORK OF THE TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH 

 COMPANIES - WORKOF IGNORANT "TREK BUTCH- 

 ERS" BLUNDERS ARISING FROM INJUDI- 

 CIOUS PLANTING PROPER PLACE TO 

 PLANT - STATES SHOULD ENACT LAWS 

 AUTHORIZING ALL CITIES, VILL- 

 AGES AND TOWNS TO PUT 



TREES ON STREETS UN- 

 DER SUPERVISION OF 

 A FORESTER. 



It was not designed by the all-wise Creator that animals, 

 plants, or any living creature should drag through life in a dis- 

 eased or half-dead condition. Perfect happiness comes from 

 obedience to Supreme Law, resulting in what we call "health," 

 which is the normal condition of bodies existing in harmony with 

 the Divine Will. The infant who inherits a sound constitution, 

 and never violates the laws of his being, enjoys, as a reward, a 

 state of perfect health. There is not a mental malady or bodily 

 deformity in existence but has back of it an efficient "cause." In 

 all my study in the sixty years that I have been permitted to 

 live I find that in the physical universe ; in the physical, mental, 

 moral and spiritual make-up of man ; in the lower animals, and in 

 the vegetable kingdom, "The Laws of God are One," and no man 

 can understand a tree, shrub or plant until he not only says but 

 realizes that (when speaking of or contemplating a tree), "that 

 tree is a living creature." This fact will be discussed further on 

 when describing leaves, roots, etc. 



The moment you say "Life," what do you imply? All the 



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