. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 13 practice even among persons interested in the preser-vation of trees (Fig. 8).. Fig. 7. — Longitudinal section of the trunk of anOak cut twenty years after pruning. A. A medium-sized branch badly amputated. B. A large branchproperly amputated These stumps, deprived of communication with theleaves, die, the bark falls off, while the stumps them-selves remain like plugs ofdecaying wood driven intothe trunk (Fig. 9). In a few years the stumpsrot (Fig. 10), and decaypenetrates to the heart ofthe tree. Fig. 11 shows th
. A treatise on pruning forest and ornamental GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 13 practice even among persons interested in the preser-vation of trees (Fig. 8).. Fig. 7. — Longitudinal section of the trunk of anOak cut twenty years after pruning. A. A medium-sized branch badly amputated. B. A large branchproperly amputated These stumps, deprived of communication with theleaves, die, the bark falls off, while the stumps them-selves remain like plugs ofdecaying wood driven intothe trunk (Fig. 9). In a few years the stumpsrot (Fig. 10), and decaypenetrates to the heart ofthe tree. Fig. 11 shows thefatal results of this methodof pruning. The method of pruningdeciduous forest trees, and especially the Oak, will befirst considered in this treatise. The Oak is selectedas the most valuable of our timber trees, and becauseunfortunate and deeply rooted prejudices exist in
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