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THE TREE DOCTOR 



Photo 56 

 Keep Cracks of Filling well Painted. 



weakened point ! To a sympathetic person this is pathetic. It 

 started to make repairs at the point where you see two bits of 

 paper tacked on, and, by actual measurement with the tape, it 

 has built enough new growth to have covered the wounded parts 

 more than three times. Is not this, though mute, a pathetic ap- 

 peal for "help?" Suppose, some twenty years ago. the decayed 

 matter had been removed and a filling properly put in, it would 

 have progressed in the "healing art," as you see in the several 

 cases herein shown, and notably in that presented in Photo 57, 

 and would have closed, as seen in Photo 58. 



Good people, I would not advise you to spend money on all 



