American homes and gardens . Trees all over the country that have received the care ofthis scientific tree surgery attest the enormity of the workand the fact that the American people are no longer sluggish,but have awakened to the necessity of the great need forreforestation. No people on this earth are blessed with such a wonderfulterritory, range of climate, variety of soil and general adapta-tion to fruit growing as those of North America. Still weare confronted with the appalling fact that unless somethingis done to arrest the diseases and check the ravages of untoldbillions of insect pes
American homes and gardens . Trees all over the country that have received the care ofthis scientific tree surgery attest the enormity of the workand the fact that the American people are no longer sluggish,but have awakened to the necessity of the great need forreforestation. No people on this earth are blessed with such a wonderfulterritory, range of climate, variety of soil and general adapta-tion to fruit growing as those of North America. Still weare confronted with the appalling fact that unless somethingis done to arrest the diseases and check the ravages of untoldbillions of insect pests that prey upon our apple trees, insideof ten years it will be next to impossible to grow even defec-tive apples. For the last twenty years there has been agradual decrease in the quality of this most desirable andstaple fruit. Similar difficulties are being encountered inattempts to grow the peach, pear, and other fruit, and shade. Portland Cement is at Once a Preserving and AntisepticComposition A Shell Filled with Cement to Preserve Life trees are going to pieces. The whole country is gettingalarmed over the disasters that await us from the destructionof our fruit crops, and at last some sections of the countryhave been able to lay the ax at the root of the trouble. Theghastly wounds of the glorious tree friends of man havebegun to cry aloud their sufferings in no uncertain way, andthe day for theis relief is at hand—nay, it has already by the roadside and in our groves are manyof them defective without our knowledge. Not more thanten per cent, of them are in a perfectly sound more deplorable still is the fact that more frequentlythan otherwise people are ignorant of their condition andthe causes thereof. America leads the world in commercialenterprise, education and industry. Our forbears criedaloud, as they pushed through the wilderness, west, Trees!trees! trees! nothing but trees
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