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House & G ard e )i 
AND THE MORAL IS — RIBS FOR TREES 
A Tree Surgeon’s Ro¬ 
mance in Two Reels 
Films by courtesy of Davey Tree Expert 
Company 
Reel I, Part III. Finally. Tree's 
interior is washed out with anti¬ 
septic. Edges are carefully cut 
aivay to a watershed and loater- 
proofed. Tree Surgeon skilfully 
plls hole luith cement, fitting it 
in sections. Wind can now siuay 
branches, and Old Thing never 
knows she has new heart and ribs 
Reel I, Part II. Treeis doomed. A little 
time, and its shade no longer will make 
pleasant the passing of men and women 
and laughing children. To the rescue 
comes the Hero. Tree Surgeon. CiUs 
away decay. Gives poor old trunk new 
set of ribs. NaUire's neglect is defeated. 
Tree lives happily 
Reel I, Part I. Discloses Nature, the 
First Viliam. She groivs a Tree loith 
branches so widespread that the trunk 
can't stand the strain. A crack ap¬ 
pears. . . . Enter Second Villain. Man 
With Cement. He caulks up the hole. 
The last state of that Tree is worse 
than the first 
Reel II, Part III. Tree Surgeon fills up 
cavity with cement sections. Ribs a7id 
backbone are covered. Venerable Tree 
more alive than ever before. Villain 
foiled. Nature smiles deceitfully, and 
groivs a neio bark over the filling 
Reel II, Part I. Venerable Tree heavy with 
years. Up creeps another Villain with a 
bucket of cement. Decay gets in his under¬ 
handed tvork. Nature shields him with ivy. 
Venerable Tree begins to totter 
Reel II, Part II. Tree Surgeon rushes in. Cuts 
out Decay. Washes out impurities. Gives 
Venerable Tree new backbone and new ribs. 
Studs insides with nails to hold cement. 
Operation is successful 
