JOHN DAVEY 



■■Tliv Father of Tree Siiri;ery" 



The Tree Doctor The Tree poctor 



Davey's Primer on Trees A New Era in Tree 

 and Birds Growing 



/;/.s- t.tx y i'RK 



The Salvation of our Trees 



VlHE Fatl.cT of Tree Sureery" is John Davcy, not thcor=l.cillly, but actu- 

 f ally He bears this title because he has earned it by great thought and 



li^J ^1 yeuiiis— of construcrivc genius. , , , , , u 



J HagJW J ^^^^^^^j ^ ignorance and neglect had held lull sway. 



\t tnras when some old tree died and passed foreyer from the hannts of men, thi; 

 it i.uie ivis^. r-bv would e,v|iiess a leeling of regret. Men planted trees, and 

 'ill M,'m iruuiued trees but they were mostly " tree - butchers. " Telephone 

 |!!ie!l,en iiul ..iluis • :'"ied ,u. a nilhless slaughter. Other men did nothing— allowed 

 the trees to care lor tbet.iseKxs. And neglect hath its reward I 



Into this wiWetness ol desttuction and abuse came Jo „ Da.ey, preaching the 

 „„sp of the IM,., tree. He told men for the firs, titne that ,t ,s possible to do as 

 worn tM hings lor the tree as surgeons do for the human body: that the tree has a 

 el a our own and just as liable to sickness au,l death; that ,ts hfe (uncttons 

 a t^os the same as our own ; that the Atnerican people are suBermg a loss of un, 

 Il ttXn through their disregard of the welfare of their trees; and tha, tree- 

 'urgen." is a real science which can restore the sick and wounded and undo, to a 

 latge .legree, the great damage wro.lght by the untrained baild. 



H s books gained instant recognition, and he was haded as the Apos, e of the 

 Tree"" He gaye his ilkis.rated lecture iu a multitude of cit.es. and eyerywhere men 

 i,.,„eied at the teachings of this man. His ideas wete new and con.ntcng; his 



appeal to the hearts of men sparkled with sincerity »f " i, „^:, , .^.fi: 

 the world a new science ol unlimited possibdlltes, recogni/.ed by all authorities as an 



''"''Til'' D^^^^Lted, new title, that ol Tree Doctor.' ' The expression "Tree 

 Surge, '" i h s, and his work has made it famous. He conceiyed the very idea of 

 " -ret Stirgcrv " and by his own efforts made it a science. The methtjds upon whtch 

 that ici I nil are the tlirect result of his genius. Very naturally, then the Dave, 

 metlmtis" lul the Davev service are nniotic, and their standard is so high that there ,s 

 no basis for comparison with auvthing in the same line. 



, Dave is the most suceesslul tree man that the world has ever known. 

 With his own hantls he has treated more trees than any liymg man. and he knows by 

 ,et ona exnerience the needs of trees and methods that will produce permanent results, 

 K Ts t ,e c'lo to a ntere theorist, but a sncccsslul specialist of international repute. 



IWe are i ed ol experimenters and ,dyenrurers,-they want resulrs. There is 

 grow ,r^ls ountry a deeper appreciation of trees and a greater regard for eir 

 wZ John Davey. nrore than any man, is responsible lor this wonderlul revolution 

 He irns I i.aln- ead. Irom whom has flowed the refreshing stream of truth atid 

 u t. e l„ a, has awakened men an.l women to a lull reah.ation ol the value ol the 

 . W I " d the sentitnent that the tree is a liyit.g creature, and as desetying 

 Ll uue li 'ent and sytnparhetic care as the human body, he let loose a volume of h.d.len 

 t ? ia-'ahte'to butnanity. When he proceeded with '"^"'jj'X 

 0 develop the tnethods an,l the ptinciples by which the tree might be ^' f "' 'J^' 

 picasuteilud profit ol n,an, he pcrlortncd a service of undying tnerit and earned a 

 iialion's i;ratitiulc. 



