FIRE INSURANCE FOR TREES 
They may put on new growth at their tips at other times, 
but the robe of leaves comes at the beginning of the 
summer. 
But when fire, insects, or other calamity comes late in 
the season, and the tree is stripped of its leaves, only un¬ 
usual measures can save its life. It must rush its reserve 
buds into new leaves and twigs. It must awaken these 
sleepers that have been drowsing through the seasons. 
It does just this. The reserve leaves come forth and save 
the life of the tree. 
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