A forked tree split and Jisfiflured by wind 



U.n)i ni-nlocted : wind storm split it 



Storms of wind and ice and sleet are prolific sources 

 of damage to trees. Limbs which have become decayed 

 nrc torn off; or trunks of crotchcd trees, which may 

 seem to be perfectly sound, are split from cop to bottom. 

 These disasters not only result in immediate injury, but 

 subject the tree to the inroads of decay. Accidents ot 

 this kind are really more serious than decay from ordi- 

 nary causes, as not only are the beauty and symmetry of 

 the'cree destroyed, but it is left in such weakened con- 

 dition chat it may succumb to any fierce wind. 



The wrong method of treatment is always worse 

 than none, and the tree, wliile temporarily patched up, 

 can never recover fully from the injury. For the proper 

 treatment ot cases o( this kind Mr. Davey has had pat- 

 ented a lag-bolt and chain, which not only draws together 

 the split portions of the tree, but is an absolute preven_- 

 tive of repeated splitting. 



The surgeons of The Davey Tree Expert Company 

 are the only ones using this system — in fact others 

 dare not. It is, like all their other surgical appliances, 

 the result of long-continued study on the part of John 

 Davey, and. in connection with their other methods of 

 treating trees, is the most successful ever devised. 



The Davey service has long passed the experimental 

 stage. Its experts know whereof they speak when they 

 talk about tree diseases and their cures. Its School 

 of Practical Forestry is composed of men who work with 

 trees because they love them — it won't have any 

 other kind in it. It wastes no time on the man who 

 merely takes up the study of trees from the commercial 

 standpoint — there is no room in its school for the 

 mercenary, and the mercenary "tree-doctor" has no 

 more place in this world than the mercenary physician 

 or]the mercenary minister. 



Therefore, the responsible men in this service are 

 experts — specialists developed in its own training school, 

 che'only one of its kind in the world. Testimonials 

 will be found in later pages speaking of this point in the 

 make-up of the corps of men in the service, and it is 

 another important factor which difierentiates the Davey 

 service from all others. There is a difference. 



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The tree opposilc braci;d hy Hie Davey iiil-iIiiiJ 



Only a real <;\pt'rt could have fottlold Ihii disaster 



