The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29

solid boGy OF cement which is placed
in it, with every care, and held BIZ
frequent nails driven into the live
wood, to prevent it's pulling away
from the wood till the bark begins to
inclose it. So fast does the tree re-
cover when it is given a chance that
in four years from now that cement
will be covered completely over, and
in few years more only a long seam
will show where the bsg% has joined
together and made the tue a whole
great age, from 800 to 400 yeArs be.
ing about as long as an elm, with
great care, can be expended to live.
1T is not often that we have to put
IN such big filling as this have
showed you, or that over there in the
school yard just across the street.
where the cavity was at the very base
OF the tree itself and had to be treat
ed with even more care than this one
we dug down for a deep pit into
the roots Of that elm, and have it
now so that it will stand for many
years, whereas, if 1t had not been
treated 1t must have become danger
Gus, in its exposed position, in a few
years.
You see, there are three layers be-
fore we get to the wood of the tree,
the two outer bark layers and the
'campian layer which lies close to
the wood, and through which the sap
flows to nourish the tree. AS this de-
velops the bark rolls toward the outer
point of circumstance, each year
rolling bit closer, till in time it
gradually closes up the opening that
has been made. But the inner bark,
or 'campian layer is the one that
does the growing, and as long as that
IS not destroyed there is hope for the
! tree We have to dig out every speck
or decayed or affected wood as thor
oughly as if it were the decayed stuff
IN tooth. and then very carefully
NIL with our special mixture of &C.
ment, which is mixed of a peculiar
consistency to be just right. Some
times we have to mix it over a second
or even a third time, to get it just
right.
THE tin patching we use where the
hole is smaller, or where the cavity
is not so deep and it is merely neces
sary to protect the cavity, which has
been thoroughly cleaned out and
gwen coating of tar preparation tc
keep out insects and cleanse the sur
face more completely. These tin
I Matches fooko1
edge of the opening, and when coated
with tar are good to protect the holes
till the trees can close them up nat.
urally.
"One of the hardest things we have
to contend with is the curiosity Of
people who can't let things alone
! On the big fill which we made close
to the ground in the schoolhouse yard
boys had kicked and SCARED the sur.
face of the fill with their shoes be-.
fore 1t had time to set hard, spelling
an otherwise nice-looking bit of work
so far as looks go. When / came
to fill the big elm cavity on Ham.
mond street l put ropes all about it
to suggest that people let it alone,
yet the very first evening it was alone
some man came and stuck his finger
into it to see if it was hard. OF
course it wasn't. and the next morn.
ing that finger mark was there, spoil.
ing the perfection of good Job.
Bangor Is almost entitled to he
called the Forest City. To stand at
the top Of the standpipe in the high.
lands and look out over the city it ap.
pears one vast carpet of green, with
here and there a break, but mainly
showing evidences of civilization on,v
by the red chimneys peeping up
among the leaves.