THE TREE DOCTOR 33 



But what a wonderful creature is "Man!" Look at the 

 Cemetery, Huntingdon, Pa., Photo 22, and behold what "Man" 

 can do ! Ten thousand dollars would not repair the damages to 

 that beautiful city of the dead ! 



Few, if any, greater misfortunes have befallen America, in 

 the last quarter of a century, than the coming of what are known 

 as professional "Tree men" in every city and in many towns. 

 Sometimes his knowledge of tree life is displayed by a few dozen 

 Latin names of trees, that he has found in some nursery cata- 

 log, or it may be only in his ability to swing an axe, run a saw, 

 bore holes in trees and fill them with cement and sulphur, (this 

 is one of the "secrets") and make believe that the sap will take 

 up this "preparation" and carry it all over the tree and kill every 

 scale and bug ; plastering, also, the trunks with other "prepara- 

 tions" and often killing the trees thereby. But in all their ig- 

 norant and nefarious frauds, nothing equals their (what ought 

 to be) "criminal" work of cutting away the tops of trees. The 



Photo 23 

 Mutilated with the Saw. 



