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At first blush, the average cost of about $30 

 for each tree, which was the surgical expense, 

 seemed large. When I considered that it would 

 take aU of thirty favoring years of new growing to 

 give me as good a tree as the tree doctor provided 

 from the old wreck in two weeks of intelligent 

 repair work, I had to conclude that the job was 

 cheap enough. Looking fairly at one hundred and 

 fifty dollars "saved" and the five trees gone — and 

 they were going fast! — ^the money made a mighty 

 small pUe, and it cast no shade from the summer's 

 sun, as the trees did, and continue to do. It is 

 "me for the tree-doctor" now, because I have no 

 certainty that I can wait on earth for young trees 

 to replace the old and picturesque ones that make 

 this growing garden fit to five in. 



Just the same way I have felt about the giant 

 sycamore which dominates the whole place. An 

 ill-intentioned "anthracnose," as Professor "Whetzel 

 calls it, had been pushing oflf the young leaves in 

 the spring soon after they spread their soft greenery 

 to the sun, and thus forcing the tree to make a 

 second crop of leaves each season, much to its 

 quite apparent distress. Without assuring me of 

 its efficacy, the professor advised spraying with 

 bordeaux mixture to discourage the anthracnose. 

 Now spraying my orchard of dwarf trees not over 



