THE TREE DOCTOR 



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Photo 36 

 Horse-Chestnuts are Apt to be Crotchy. 



feet out from the building, there is a beautiful Elm towering up 

 and spreading like a huge umbrella. This tree was split, how- 

 ever, in three places ; in one of them to the ground. It was my 

 good pleasure to be permitted to put twenty of our young stu- 

 dents to work there, fixing up all the trees on the estate. So 

 thorough was the work on the Elm referred to that a wind 

 would have to blow it down before it could split again ; and so 

 pleased was Mr. Warren, the superintendent, that he remarked : 

 "I consider your work in saving this Elm alone worth all that 

 the bill amounts to on the whole estate." 



In my lecture work, in writing, and on all occasions I lay 

 more stress on the troubles arising from the "forked" or 

 "crotched" condition of trees than on all others, because it is 

 safe to say that seventy-five per cent, of orchard and shade trees 

 that have been planted are weakened from this source. "What 

 is the remedy?" Those applied are sometimes as bad as the 



