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It is this book's aim to help along these lines, with basic "show how" text and illustrations on such elementals as tree feeding, light pruning, cavity and flux treatment, the relief of girdling roots. It surprises lots of people to learn that a hundred pounds of good tree food properly installed by themselves can save a $25 bill from the "surgeon/' Or that a few inches of pipe or tubing correctly inserted can deter heartwood decay. For the higher mystique and techniques of treating trees, advice is offered on how to pick and pay tree experts, what to tell them, what to ask them, how to check on their work. True practitioners of tree care are among nature's noblemen, to be trusted and cherished. But the woods are full of cynical, piratical frauds and gypsy butchers. |
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