18 DA VET'S 



Oh, my! children, what do you think of that for an 

 "arm?" You can get some idea of the size of this 

 main arm from the height of the man (who is nearly 

 six feet tall), standing under the tree. It is all of four 

 feet through this branch, close to the trunk of the tree. 

 I am told that the good Horace Greeley, when on one of 

 his trips west, was so charmed with this beautiful maple, 

 that he alighted from the stage coach, measured the 

 tree and "wrote it up," and published it in the New 

 York Tribune. This tree is situated on the "Ridge 

 Road," near Unionville, some fifteen miles east of 

 Painsville, O. 



Now, children, close attention! please; for you 

 must not miss a single word of what I have to say. 

 In the other photograph you see the lady's finger 

 pointing to the base of a small branch. The one on 

 the big maple was once no larger than that to which 

 the finger points, and before that it was nothing but a 

 little, tender bud. One thing more you must fix in 

 your minds, namely : THAT BUD sprang from the 

 pith or heart of the parent stock, and always remains 

 connected with it. Keeping this fact in mind will help 

 you to understand what has caused the death of millions 

 of beautiful trees ! 



You do not find " sick trees" in the native forests, 

 unless something happens to injure them, like the falling 

 of another tree, or a stroke of lightning or similar causes. 

 We would naturally expect that they would improve 

 when they come under care of man, but it is not so. 



