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THE TREE DOCTOR 



these points are secured, place a bolt higher up, as in Photo 40 ; 

 higher up still where the right hand is pointing would be pre- 

 ferable. But the best method of all is what we have recently in- 

 troduced, the hook-bolt and chain. This is less expensive and 

 more effectual. 



Photo 40 

 Place Bolt Higher Up. 



All who have trees with the tendency to splitting will not 

 only save expense by heading off the danger before breaking, 

 but save the tree itself. Alas! how many have mourned when an 

 old monarch and friend is laid low and gone forever! 



Photo 42 is a young Cherry tree ; one of an orchard of one 

 hundred trees, planted some ten years ago. Like all the others, 

 it was planted just as it came from the nursery. This, you see, 



