The owner of the second tree in the picture needed llii-^ is lii>w hi nbinini.i 



firewood 



wliile not controllable, could be remedied and overcome. Still others were found 

 in the brutality of "tree murderers with barbed-wire hearts," who ruthlessly cut 

 and slashed trees when they seemingly interfered with wires overhead or with the 

 lines of streets at their feet— a cause wholly controllable, and the injuries inflicted 

 by which were possible of remedy if taken in time. Many others were met with 

 in the misdirected efforts of novices or pseudo-treemen, who, cauglit by the 

 great wave of popular demand for better and saner care of trees and looking 

 merely to its commercial possibilities, have wrought untold damage to countless 

 trees. 



To owners of trees suffering from any of these conditions, real Tree Surgery 

 has come as a boon; by it have been saved to future generations some of the 

 Creator s noblest handiwork. One who loves trees said not so long ago of the 

 pines, that they "have furnished the bulk of the material of which our civilization 

 is built," and surely this reason alone should he sufficient to retard the unneces- 

 sary slaughter, and overcome the careless indifference to their needs, to which 

 these "foundations of civilization" have been subjected. As men whose love for 

 trees causes them to pay enormous prices to have some particular specimen, which 



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their hearts hold in tender reverence, transplanted, by tilt methods now in vogue, 

 to a place where its owner may enjoy its association, or where it may repay in 

 grateful shade the loving care bestowed upon it, or where its beauty may be made 

 a feature of the landscape or of the home grounds.— so they now employ a tree 

 surgeon whenever the tree suffers by stress of weather or injury from any other 

 cause, just as the physician is called to minister to a loved one who falls ill or 

 meets with an accident. 



You have seen some old "towering white oak that has defied the storms of 

 centuries," and cannot have failed to be impressed with its dignity and grandeur 

 and beauty. Unfortunately, such objects in our landscape are rare, just on account 

 of lack of knowledge of what to do for a tree when wounded or sick, It is an 

 inspiring sight to witness the struggle of a great, sturdy, noble old tree battling 

 with a gale of wind. How it bends its head to the blasts, ivhich seem to be trying 

 to tear the tree limb from limb, and ruthlessly to hurl its trunk to the ground. 

 And what a great lesson the tree teaches as it rights itself and seems to shake its 

 head like some old giant and cast defiance into the very tcetli of the gale! 



But with all its strength (and often the strongest looking suflor most), 



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