. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental with thetrunk, and then cover the wound with coal tar toavoid all bad Iesults. Althoughwounds caused by the amputationof small branches heal over in spiteof the faulty methods of pruninggenerally employed, such opera-tions are, nevertheless, attendedwith considerable danger to thetree. Protuberances are formed^. „ ^ . ^, on the trunk at the points where Fig. 6. — Decaying Oak, ^ showing the effect of ampu- tlic branclics liavc bccu cut, and tating a branch in such a ; way that the diameter of the thCSC produCC a multitude of Small wo
. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental with thetrunk, and then cover the wound with coal tar toavoid all bad Iesults. Althoughwounds caused by the amputationof small branches heal over in spiteof the faulty methods of pruninggenerally employed, such opera-tions are, nevertheless, attendedwith considerable danger to thetree. Protuberances are formed^. „ ^ . ^, on the trunk at the points where Fig. 6. — Decaying Oak, ^ showing the effect of ampu- tlic branclics liavc bccu cut, and tating a branch in such a ; way that the diameter of the thCSC produCC a multitude of Small wound does not exceed the ^^^^ gj^^^^g .. p. ^. rj.^^ diameter of the base of \ 7 s y the branch. development of such shoots in- dicates that a tree is in an unnatural condition, whichmay be entirely avoided by cutting the branch evenwith the trunk (B, Fig. 7). Experience and common-sense show the objectionto leaving any portion of an amputated limb, butthere is greater danger in allowing stumps one ortwo feet long to remain on the trunk, a common. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 13 practice even among persons interested in the preser-vation of trees (Fig. 8).
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