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THE TREE DOCTOR 



bearing canes the last year's growth have been cut off! 

 (Think of the wisdom of this "Grape-fool!") One of the fruit- 

 bearing canes was picked up and wound around and hung up so 

 that you can see it. It has twenty-one nice, plump, fat "eyes" 

 or buds, and each bud would produce one, two, or three bunches 

 of grapes. 



The same simpletons who have ruined the trees of the towns 



Photo 96 

 An abundant Reward. 



and cities of this country destroy not less than two hundred 

 thousand tons of grapes annually ; for the average mechanic and 

 farmer copies their destructive methods, honestly thinking it is 

 all right because the "Tree man" does it that way. 



A year ago, Mr. T. G. Parsons, lumber merchant, Kent, O., 

 sent for me. He had been unable to get grapes for six years. 

 I showed him his error, and he preserved the new canes, and 

 tied them up, as you see in Photo 98. He recently told me : "I 



