Photo 39. 



examining this maple is Mr. 

 John Paxton, the young, 

 wide-awake and energetic 

 editor of the Kent Courier. 

 This gentleman is much in- 

 terested in good trees and 

 fine floral displays. See from 

 his right hand clear down to 

 the ground how the bark has 

 been destroyed. Though na- 

 ture is making most vigorous 

 efforts to heal this over, yet 

 the tree is utterly worthless 

 and should be pulled out, for 

 if it does remain and heal 

 over it will be hollow, and 

 will be blown down and pos- 

 sibly do damage. Take out 

 all such trees and replace 

 with small, healthy ones. 



I have asserted that when 

 the roots are thus destroyed 

 it results in a dead center. 

 This usually affects the 

 branches in a similar manner 

 as do the wounds from the "tree- 

 butcher." The rot is carried away 

 up into the branches. See this ex- 

 hibited in photos 56 and 57. One 

 can generally pick out such trees 

 by the dead twigs interspersed in 

 the top. Sometimes a tree may be 

 planted in a very favorable situa- 

 tion and will do so well that there 

 is no particular trace of the injury 

 in the twigs. Photo 59 is a case of 

 this kind, but in photo 60 you have 

 what you can discover on close in- 

 spection. Such a tree, I say, is not 

 safe, for it is liable to succumb to 

 the force of a violent storm. 



In photo 6 1 you have an ex- 

 ample. The smaller tree to the 

 left was quite large when planted. 

 I think the gentleman paid f3 for 

 it. As usual a dead center set in; 

 the bark dried up toward the hot 

 sun and peeled off (between the two 

 crosses). The bark will dry up on 

 any side of the tree that is exposed 

 to the hottest sun. It may be east, west or south, but generally south. The tree is now 

 doing fairly well and may make a large one, but it is hollow and will be a constant 

 menace to the occupants of that house, for, being hollow, it may go crashing into the 

 house with any severe storm. 



Photo 40. 



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