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EASTERN SHADE TREE CONFERENCE 
Tree injuries that I am going to show fall into five general classes; 
1. Total destruction by breaking off, 
2. Total destruction by uprooting, 
3. Partial destruction by breaking or splitting. 
(In each of these three classes the tree stump was removed.) 
4. Tipping over at various angles, 
5. Breaking off some of its limbs. 
(Some included in these two latter classes also had to be removed.) 
Out of 500 trees, the numbers affected in the different classes were 
approximately as follows; in the first class, 25; in the second class, 40; 
in the third class, 100; in the fourth class, 260; in the fifth class, 75. 
(The following are the author’s comments on his excellent colored lantern slides.) 
1. Shows a heavy granite cross blown over by the wind. No other cause was in¬ 
volved, as there were no trees anywhere near it. This cross, falling into the sodden 
ground, was entirely uninjured. 
2. Shows a tall cross 18 feet high, which was moved on its base, but did not fall. 
3. Shows the effects of the twisting action on the granite. 
4. On the left shows a large Oak tree 40 r/ in diameter before the hurricane. 
5. Is a better view of the same tree. This tree had been braced with rods and the 
cavity filled with cement. 
6. Shows what the hurricane did to it. It was broken off about 12' above the ground. 
Of ten cavity jobs, this is the only one that failed in the hurricane. 
7. Shows a close-up of the same tree with part of the filling intact. 
8. Is an Oak tree of approximately the same size as the one shown, which stood the 
storm fairly well. It lost one large limb, which is shown resting on the ground. 
This tree can be repaired at very small expense. 
9. Is an Elm tree about 85 feet tall, and was entirely undamaged in the hurricane. 
10. The next four slides show a landscaping as it appeared before the hurricane and 
11. how it still appears. This was undamaged except that one or two of the taller 
12. Arborvitaes and one or two of the Pines had to be forced back to a horizontal 
13. position and guyed. 
14. Shows a Beech tree before the storm, which was entirely unaffected. 
15. Shows two Blue Spruces, one of which was taken out. 
16. Shows the same tree after the storm. 
17. Shows a part of a row of 12 trees along the edge of a bank only one of which was 
blown over so that it had to be removed. 
18. Shows the result of the whipping effect of the wind on some of the Evergreens. 
19-21. Shows some of the trees that were broken off. In nearly every case where 
a tree was broken off or split, signs of decay were revealed. 
22. Shows the effect on curbing of trees when uprooted. When this wall was set some 
of the larger roots were cut, thus making it easier for the trees to tip over than it 
would have been if the roots had been in their normal condition. 
23. This does not apply in 23, as this curb has been set more than forty years, and 
the tree was broken with sufficient force to lift the curb out of its position. 
