THE TREE DOCTOR 



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sound, wholesome fruit, don't subject your trees to all kinds of 

 fungous and scrofulous diseases. The sap that goes into the leaf 

 is changed and passes on, but all that which goes into the fruit, 

 pure or impure, remains there. 



The inflicting of a wound on a tree is neither destructive nor 

 injurious to any great extent if the structure of a tree is under- 

 stood and the wound is properly cared for ; but the ignorance of 

 tree life, on the part of the so-called "Tree men," has resulted in 

 shortening the existence of orchards and shade trees at least 

 four-fifths of their natural lives, and disfiguring them to such an 

 extent that it would be advantageous to pull out nine-tenths of 

 the old trees and replace with young and healthy ones. 



In Photo 6 you see how the farmer, and the ignorant city or 

 town "Tree man" does the work. They cut off, leaving a stub, as 

 shown in the middle specimen. This had been cut one year, and 



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Photo 5 

 Correctly Cut, but Wound not Dressed. 



