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Excerpt from The Principles and Practice of Pruning
In the preparation of this volume I have found the Experiment Station Record, published by the United States Department of Agriculture, of immeasurable help in searching for literature on pruning by means of its abstracts and voluminous indexes. From it occasional brief passages, mainly concerning foreign investigations, have been copied, with credit to the original sources of information instead of to the Record itself.
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If Trees Could Talk
Frank L. Brace in Tree Talk
If trees could talk, the tales they'd tell
Would surely be worth listening to.
The trees that form the shady dell,
Where lovers their fond vows renew;
The trees that guard the home, the street
Where children play and elders rest;
What varied tales would they repeat
Of hopes deferred or hearts oppressed
Of happy lives divinely blest.
If trees could talk, how oft we'd hear
Of gross mistreatment, lack of care,
Borne patiently for many a year,
While thoughtless mortals unaware
Of how trees suffer, why they fail,
Put forth no effort to repel
The foes that constantly assail.
Sad tales like this we know full well,
A myriad suffering trees would tell.
If trees could talk, methinks their words
Would sound a protest loud and stern
For loss of their good friends, the birds,
And make a plea for their return.
Trees need the birds and so do we.
In the incessant fight to sty
The foes that so persistently
On flowers and fruit and foliage prey,
Our allies, vigilant, are they.
Trees cannot talk, and yet, to him
Who truly loves these friends of man,
Their every leaf and flower and
limb Is vocal. Since the world began
The trees have been our steadfast friends
And our well-being constantly
Upon their life and growth depends.
How faithful then our care should be,
How fondly should we love the tree.
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