PARK AND C E M ET ERY. 
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A NOTABLE WORK IN MODERN TREE SURGERY 
The renovation of the grand old “Lib- 
erty Tree” was the greatest work that 
I have ever done in tree doctoring. This 
tree is located on the campus of St. 
John’s College at Annapolis, Md., and is, 
1 am safe in saying, the largest tree in 
this country outside of the Red Wood 
Belt. It' is 104 feet high, 37 feet 3 inches 
in circumference a few inches above the 
ground, and is a tulip tree (Lirioden- 
cron Tulipifera) and is known to the 
people of the South as the Tulip Poplar. 
This huge trunk extends 25 feet, at 
which point it divides into two gigantic 
branches both of which are nearly 9 feet 
in circumference at a height of 56 feet 
above the ground. One of these huge 
branches was hollowed to a height of 56 
feet 3 inches. In the main trunk there 
was a great cavity, which after being 
cleaned out was 11 feet 6 inches in di- 
ameter at the base and was open on one 
side to a height of 18 feet. This cavity 
is shown in picture No. 1 before it was 
cleaned out. 
Picture No. 2 shows the men at work 
inside the cavity removing the decayed 
wood. 
Picture No. 3 shows the tree from the 
opposite side to the cavity, but it shows 
the ladders in the tree and at the top of 
the small ladder is the opening through 
No. 1. THE CAVITY IN THE 
1 IBERTY TREE 
which the last batch of concrete was 
poured. 
Picture No. '4 shows how the concrete 
was put in — the large cavity being held 
there while it set by an 8-inch brick 
wall which was afterwards plastered 
with cement colored and roughened to 
imitate the bark as shown in picture 
No. 5. 
Picture No. 6 shows the great cavity 
after it was cleaned out. 
Picture No. 7 shows Mayor Claude of 
Annapolis and a group of children in and 
around the cavity, six of the children 
being a portion of Mayor Claude's fam- 
ily. 
After the work of cleaning the cavity 
and the removing of all dead wood was 
finished, the cavity was washed with a 
solution of copper sulphate and lime to 
destroy any fungus germs that escaped 
the chisel of the workmen. The filling 
was then begun from the bottom as 
shown in No. 4 picture. As soon as this 
face was closed as shown in No. 5 pic- 
ture the concrete was poured in through 
the large cavity shown about half way up 
the tree in No. 3 picture. When this 
was sealed up, the remainder of the con- 
crete was poured in from the cavity at 
the top of the small ladder as shown in 
picture No. 3. 
Before the concrete was put in steel 
No. 2. REMOVING THE DECAYED 
WOOD 
No. 3. THE LIBERTY TREE, FROM 
THE OPPOSITE SIDE 
No. 5. THE FINISHED WORK 
