. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental and increaseits value. The restoration of an oldOak maybe cited in this con-nection. This tree, whichstood in a hedge-row, wasprobably two hundred yearsold and had suifered ter-ribly from neglect and mu-tilation. The lower por-tion of the trunk was covered with the dead F;?. oW tree; first prun- stumps of branches (Fig. °^ 46), their numerous protuberances being filled withcavities, and bristling with vigorous shoots. The tophad begun to decay, and the tree seemed destined tospeedy death. In pruning this tree, it became neces-sary
. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental and increaseits value. The restoration of an oldOak maybe cited in this con-nection. This tree, whichstood in a hedge-row, wasprobably two hundred yearsold and had suifered ter-ribly from neglect and mu-tilation. The lower por-tion of the trunk was covered with the dead F;?. oW tree; first prun- stumps of branches (Fig. °^ 46), their numerous protuberances being filled withcavities, and bristling with vigorous shoots. The tophad begun to decay, and the tree seemed destined tospeedy death. In pruning this tree, it became neces-sary to make, in the space of a few feet, no less thanseven wounds ten to twenty inches wide, in additionto many others of smaller size (Fig. 47). In spite ofthis heroic treatment the tree improved remarkablyin health and vigor ; and the numerous wounds madeon the trunk by the amputation of dead branches en-tirely healed over, as may be seen in Fig. 48. It must be acknowledged that, had this Oak beenleft in the condition to which neglect had reduced 48 TREE PRUNING. or if nothing beyond lopping off from year to year theyoung shoots developed along the trunk had been at-
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