Do You Care Enough For Your Trees 

 To Have Their Lives Prolonged? 



"VT'OU DO, if you love trees — if their majestic beauty calms your restless spirit when the cares of life 

 ^ weigh heaviest; if their cooling shade and the gentle rustle of their leaves bring solace in your weary 

 hours; if the laughter of their branches makes happier and brighter the hours when your home means 

 most to you. 



Like every lover of trees, you have been moved by feelings of admiration and of pity as you watched 

 the gallant but unsuccessful struggle for life of some giant tree — perchance a priceless heritage from loved 

 ones long since passed away — as it gave way to the insidious advance of internal decay, or was torn and 

 wounded by the storm king. 



The Life of That Tree Might Have Been Saved: 

 Almost Every Tree's May Be by Proper Methods! 



A tree lives a very real life; it breathes and has a cir- 

 culation. Its digestive organs perform their functions, 

 and its process of reproduction is beautiful and inspiring. 

 Because a tree has life, it is subject to disease and decay. 

 Under normal conditions it remains healthy; perversion 

 of these conditions leads to ills and afflictions which must 

 result in the tree's death unless they are properly treated 

 and cured. 



Since it cannot speak, the tree suffers in silence — but 

 it suffers none the less. A tree has its enemies, just as 

 does any other form of life. Storms, fire, insects, 

 animals, diseases — above all, the "tree butcher" — ■ 

 increasingly menace the life of the tree as it becomes a 

 )art of our complex civilization, with its congestion of 

 population and multiplicity of devices for rapid commu- 

 nication and transportation. 



Wounded Friends, 



Graphically describes tree facts, many of them heretofore untold, and gives in detail the Davey methods of tree preservation. This book is 

 unique, just as the Davey system is essentially original. It explains the superior efficiency of Davey methods, and tells Vi'hy only experts should be 

 employed for tree surgery. The book has cost too much to permit promiscuous distribution, but we shall be glad to forward a copy free, on re- 

 quest, to any person in the Mississippi Valley or Eastward who has fine trees that are decaying, and who is interested in saving them. 



The Davey Tree Expert Co. 



(Operating Davey's School of Practical Forestry) 



143 Elm Street, Kent, Ohio 



The Salvation of Our Trees " 



A little booklet which gives 

 facts about lecture of the same 

 title delivered by John Davey. 



This lecture is an exposition of 

 the unique science of tree pre- 

 servation, and is aitention-com- 

 peliing to the utmost degree. 

 This book- 

 let Free. 



With the transition from the conditions approaching 

 the natural, under which the trees thrived comparatively 

 unmolested, to those in which it is surrounded by count- 

 less enemies, however, there has come a new under- 

 standing of its nature and a new science for its salvation. 

 Years were required to perfect it — years of patient study 

 and experiment by a man to whom the trees are as 

 brothers. 



John Davey, " the father of tree surgery," has given 

 the greater part of his life to its development. The 

 science long since passed out of the experimental stage; 

 the permanence of its results is a matter of demonstration, 

 for throughout the country trees that a few years ago 

 were doomed to early death are living in lordly grandeur. 

 The Davey tree surgeons have shown their ability to 

 save any tree, if they are called in time. 



'The Tree Doctor 



John Davey's latest and most 

 comprehensive work on the care 

 of trees. An invaluable hand- 

 book for every owner really in- 

 terested in the preservation and 

 care of his trees. Written in 

 plain language for lay readers. 

 Price, $2, 

 postpaid. 



