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THE TREE DOCTOR 



Photo 42 



Heading Back is Wrong. 



see the people are under a great delusion ; their education is de- 

 fective. Good people, you should learn that in purchasing nurs- 

 ery stock it is cheaper for you to go out and cut "brush wood'' 

 in the fence corners than it is to pay twenty-five cents a handful 

 extra to have it on the young tree when it is brought to you. 

 If you will call for a straight "leader," a two-year old plant, 

 standing five or six feet high, then you can make a decent tree 

 out of it, high or low just as you desire. 



Look at Photo 43. This is another young Cherry tree. I 

 went into the nursery and picked out this and some others for a 

 friend. The lower tier of branches was removed every year 

 until it was of the desired height. There is not a "crotch" in it, 



