THE TREE DOCTOR 



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phone lines, however, it is different ; the poles might just as well 

 be in the field, a hundred feet from fence and trees. While it 

 would take a little extra wire to run to the houses, yet there. 

 would probably be a saving to the company, as their wires would 

 not be endangered by falling trees, neither would the current be 

 "grounded" by contact with the sap of the tree. ''Feed wires" 

 are commonly run through the tops of trees and occasionally set 

 fire to the latter ; and I have seen cases where the linemen have 

 notched the wires where they come in contact with the branch, 

 so that, in the swaying of the top, some branches are actually 

 sawed and burnt off! 



In considering this dispute between the people and the trol- 

 ley and telephone companies, there are many phases that demand 

 attention. First, all kinds of blunders have been committed in | 

 the matter of planting trees. (And there is no one particularly 



Photo 19 

 Headed Back in the Nursery. 



