Photo 21. 



The process of tree-building has gone on year after year 

 till now you see a mammoth beauty about a hundred and 

 fifty feet high. You are presented with a view of this 

 plant across one of the celery fields adjoining (photo 30). 

 The tree is the tallest one to the right. A violent cyclone 

 tore a branch from it some few years ago, as it did also 

 from its neighbor. 



(Many of our readers probably never saw celery 

 growing on a large scale. This is the White Plume vari- 

 ety, taken under a strong sunlight. This is a part of 

 Pleasant Valley Celery Farm, at Kent, Ohio. If you get 

 hungry for good celery, better write them.) 



It appears that trees are like persons some born to 

 reach the top round in the ladder of fame, while the 



masses pass into oblivion as if they 

 never had existed. Photo 31 is a 

 good example of the ' 'sugar maple' ' 

 of Northeastern Ohio. It has been 

 "trimmed," but not by an ignorant 

 man. The "tree-butcher" would 

 have killed it years ago. The 

 " trimming," you will notice, has 

 been performed in a very system- 

 atic manner. The "professors" 

 who had the job in charge were 

 horses and cattle ; they nibbled off 

 the branches as high as they could 

 reach. The upper parts of the tree 

 have adjusted themselves to the 

 light and air. The top leans a little 

 in a northeasterly direction. You 

 will see hundreds of trees that lean 

 in this way. It is due to the steady 

 breezes that blow from the west and 

 southwest. Photo 87 is an example 

 of this. This tree is a young elm. 

 It is situated where the wind, after 

 coming over a hill, becomes com- 

 pressed and keeps a steady pres- 

 sure on it, and the tender branches 

 grow where they are kept by the 

 force of the wind. The remedy is 

 to cut off the branches where the 

 lines are, leaving a heavier portion of the head on the side toward the wind. Dress the 

 wounds as directed under that head. Cut off all branches under the horizontal line and 

 all to the left of the vertical one. Photo 32 exhibits a lovely maple about seventy feet 

 high. The picttire was taken at quite a distance and during a strong wind, which shook 

 the camera and slightly blurred the picture. You will observe how nicely this, also, is 

 "trimmed." Prince and Dick and Charley and Bossy have done this at their leisure, 

 while they stamped and switched off the flies. You will notice in this case, also, how 

 mother (nature) has taken care of the upper stories. The one great lesson that mother 

 thus teaches us is, form the top the right height and then keep hands off. It is the desire 

 of the author of this work that you study, above any other part, the lessons on planting, 

 &&& forming the tops of trees. See elsewhere. 



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Photo 22. 



