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Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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successful protection is tar. Sheet iron, tar paper, etc.,tacked on over wounds that have not been treated to checkinvasion of tree diseases, are of doubtful advantage. Outsidethey look snug and neat, but underneath insects harbour andfungi thrive in the moist darkness which is the most favourablecondition for their development. A tree thus protected (?) oftengoes over in a storm, revealing a rotten heart that has developedsince the accident that tore off its limb. A hollow tree, or one with a cheesy heart, may be opened(if there is no opening on the side), scraped clean of its corruptinterior substance, and filled with cement. With this pillarof stone fitted inside it, the tree is no longer a hollow shell weakenough for wind to overthrow it. Its disease checked, it maytake on a new lease of life. Historic trees, especially, justifythorough renovation and bolstering inside; but the average oldXree, weakened by accident and disease, is best cut down and a:oung one given its place. 512
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Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company TULIP TREE (Liriodendron Tulipifera) CHAPTER IX: THE ENEMIES OF TREES In every treetop we can read the story of a long fight. Leaf,flower and fruit, bud, twig and branch, contest unceasingly forroom and food and sun. Underground, the roots have their ownstruggle for the bounty of the soil. Always the struggle is un-equal, the weak succumbing to the strong. Where tens succeed,hundreds and thousands fail. In the woods the story is the same. Neighbour trees contendas do neighbour branches. Nature thins and prunes, discardingall but the fittest. Many people understand that the best forestsare those in which Nature has her own way. But only fromNatures point of view. She is the great impartial all-Mother,and is as much interested in the well-being of a fungus that de-stroys a tree as in the tree itself. A virgin forest is a battlegroundwhere varied and multitudinous natural forces meet and fight forsupremacy. The noble forests of the Cascad

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