Kapa 
28th Year 
OST OF THE PLANT life that 
Mets better our everyday living 
has an obvious way of indicating that 
it needs nourishment. Lawns may go 
off-color. Flowers and vegetables be- 
come stunted and fail to produce their 
usual colorful blossoms or tasty fruits. 
Trees sometimes give up but more 
often they just make the best of short 
rations, pace their growth by decades 
rather than years. 
Professionals have long known the 
advantage of feeding trees. Most home 
owners just accept their traditional slow 
growth as part of nature’s plan. Yet 
how pleased they would be to know 
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that with just.a little help in the dietary 
department, a.tree can leap into, ma- 
turity, spread its protecting and shad- 
ing branches years ahead~-of “what 
folks expect. What a boon then~ is 
tree feeding to the thousands of home 
owners who otherwise would have to 
be resigned to thinking in terms of 
many, many years before their new 
trees would prosper, provide welcome 
shade and complete the home picture. 
The pictures on this page show two 
American Elms that are within a hun- 
dred yards of each other. The one is 
taller as it should be since it is approxt- 
mately 30 years old as compared to its 
