THE TREE DOCTOR 



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Photo 17 

 All Wires can go Under these Branches. 



to come. The top leans a little, but that is on account of the 

 prevailing winds from the south-westerly side. 



The Oak should live to be a thousand years of age. We 

 have this fact established in connection with the old estates of 

 Great Britain and the older countries. What was once a very 

 symmetrical White Oak is shown in Photo 16. In order to run 

 a straight line for telephone poles, they slashed right through 

 the side, and then leffthe wounds open to carry decay to the 

 very center of this fine specimen the work of Nature for some 

 seventy-five years. "Vandalism!" do you say? If we have no 

 laws by which we can pronounce it "criminal," we should 

 speedily enact such laws as will make it a dastardly "criminal" 

 offense to destroy "property" in such a way. 



If there were an occasion for a telegraph or telephone com- 

 pany to run'their line on the street seen in Photo 15, the merci- 

 less butchers would have no regard for the beauty therein pre- 

 sented. 



