THE TREE DOCTOR 



81 



facture the cambium and hustle it down for our support." Thus 

 the two extremities have co-operated and constructed an object 

 of utility and beauty. 



One of the commonest mistakes is made by being too much 

 in a hurry, and insisting on having big trees planted. . Now don't 

 understand me as saying that large trees cannot be moved. 



Photo 69 

 Base of Hickory Tree. 



for they can, and the work can be done with perfect success, pro- 

 vided you save the "feeding roots ;" but to do this often involves 

 big expense, more than most people are willing to pay ; but there 

 are any number of "Tree men" hungry for a job who will under- 

 take such work at figures which are utterly impossible and do it 

 right. They "slight the work to save themselves." This is 

 wrong all around. I see hundreds of trees every summer stand- 

 ing dead that have been moved and "guaranteed" to live. 



If you will thrust a spade down into the ground, just under 

 the tips of the branches, you will find large quantities of fibrous 

 6 



