Abstract
ALTHOUGH there is scarcely a garden or park of any pretensions in this country which does not contain within its boundaries one or more trees particularly valued for their interest, beauty, or associations, how rarely do their owners ever take any steps to keep them in health, and thus prolong their term of years. The care of trees, indeed, more especially those parts in it which may be described as surgical and antiseptic, is an art strangely recent in origin. Some of the practices of still living “tree-doctors” (one may instance the leaving of a stump “to draw the sap” when a branch or limb is sawn off) betray a simple faith curiously reminiscent of the methods of sixteenth-century practitioners on the human frame.
The Care of Trees in Lawn, Street, and Park.
By Bernard E. Fernow. Pp. x + 392. (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1910.)
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The Care of Trees in Lawn, Street, and Park . Nature 84, 423–424 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084423b0
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