UXS “PROTECTION OE GHERRYS PRES 
Cherry trees are generally delicate. To break their 
branches or wound the trunk does great harm to the 
trees. Wounds should be promptly attended to, because 
the wounded parts are apt to be infected by injurious 
fungi, which will eventually kill the trees. If decay 
begins, the affected parts must be removed without de- 
lay, cleaned with disinfectants like creosote, and coated 
with coal-tar. Holes should be stuffed with cement. 
Speaking generally, however, cherry trees that attain 
perfect growth become very strong and survive several 
hundred years, growing into magnificent trees with their 
branches spreading in all directions or drooping even 
to the ground. 
Large trees with perfect form and appearance are 
often found, even among the cherries belonging to Somei- 
Yoshino or Sato-zakura (domestic cherries) and that 
have been left in an uninjured state. Most of the trees 
commonly seen here and there are, so to speak, in a 
sick state, with blasted branches and disfigured forms. 
Parasites and smoke pollution are often responsible 
for the blasting of. cherry trees, but fatality is more 
frequently caused by the wounds inflicted to the trunk 
or branches. In the past it was something like a 
fashion among people bent on flower-viewing excursions 
to break off with impunity branches or twigs of bloom- 
ing cherry trees and carry them home as souvenirs. 
However, such vandalism is punished now and _ people 
have become conscious of the necessity of loving and 
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