Tree Surgery
If winter reveals the beauty of trees, it is also merciless in exposing damage and defects. The fierce weather of 10135.---a bitter year for all tree owners—has been so disas- trous that it •seems no exaggeration to 'say that 00 per cent. , of the trees in this country are now in need 'of surgical attention. The attitude of the • average owner of large, trees is astonishingly indifferent. He seems to consider tree surgery an expense only to be undertaken in extremity, or he has fixed in his mind the notion that trees can' take care of themselves or that anyway they arc as good as everlasting. Yet the fall of a tree brings him to tears, and • a stack of firewood; incidentally bought from himself by hard cash for woodmen's wages, is poor consolation. Yet the expenditure each Winter of a 'few pounds and the' intelligent application of the principles' of such a book as Mr. A. D. C. Le Sueur's Care and Repair of Ornamental 'Trees would save team trees, money and all.. Incidentally, it is worth _ noting that the practical and economic possibility of producing higher grades of timber by careful pruning of standing trees is a problem that is being investigated by the Forestry Commission, and the Research Laboratory at Princes His- borough is making many examinations and experiments.
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