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These trees, the export predicted, CHANG'S THE MAN. would resume their former shape with a new head of branches in the C 3 PATIENTS MADE A 1 BY course of six or seven years. Their

THE KNIFE.

outline would be practically as it was when the tree was healthy- only the height must be several feet lower.

CEMENT "FILLINGS."

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Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me,

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VIEWS OF A JAPANESE.

A close watch upon tree develop-

Mr. Yamamoto, President of manta is very necessary in public the South Manchuria Railway- parks and gardens especially where Company, is hopeful of an amic there are elms. Elms are liable to able settlement of the Man- lose their branches with little warn-churia and Mongolian problems in ing. The weight of leaves may be the negotiations to be resumed It is not a bit of good talking like come a strain upon the short-grain-between Japan and China. Не this to the woodman now: he willed wood of a branch in heavy rain thinks that the outstanding rail- confound you with auch sound rea-where upon a sudden little gust way problems, for instance, can sons for lopping branches off your of wind upon the calmest day be solved in familiar conversation old tree that you will be obliged to imaginable will be sufficient to between the representative of admlt that instead of being a tree bring the branch down. murderer he is the saviour of its; life.

When the expert forester talks about pruning trees he uses phrases common to the medical man. He will speak of the treatment of tree wounds, of the prononess of these wounds to infection, und of the application of antiseptic dressings: Certain trees, he will tell you, bleed when wounded.

Saving Big Branches. In Kev Gardens they are most careful to put seats out of the way of possible danger from big trees, and there is a weekly review of the position of seats.

hoth countries, instead of by formal and serious discussion of the points at issue by copious quotations from treaty provisious and international law. As quoted by the "Mainichi," Mr. Yamamoto says that in dealing with China The possiblity of tree-splitting is it is impossible to ignore Marshal often foreseen by the experts and Chang Tso-lin. Indeed, in the trees may be noticed big branches existing circumstances, there is of which are strengthened above ano alternative for Japan but to weak fork by a bar of iron. A deal with him. It is true, Mr. In the United States, indeed, they hole is bored through each branch Yamamoto admits, that neither classify the various processes car- and the bar is bolted at either end. Manchuria nor North China is ried out to improve the health and An alternative method is the fixing free from the anti-Chang senti- | appearance of a tree under the head-of a metal coliar round each branch

ing of tree surgery."

with a chain linking the two collars: but the objection to collars is that the branches outgrow the collars. W. C. S. in "Evening News.”

In the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and elsewhere, the lives of old trees have been prolonged and de- formities in young trees have been removed by operations which are. in part, analogous to surgical opera- tions on human beings. And trees respond to treatment in much the same way as does the human body.

I have just listened to one of the

a

"CONTAGIOUS."

DOCTOR'S NEW THEORY ON CANCER.

ment and that consequently his position is not absolutely secure, but it is impossible to find in North China a man of greater in- fluence. and calibre than he. Even if there is, It is inconceiv- able that he will be able to con- trol the Three Eastern Provinces more efficiently than Marshal Chang. It is, in such circum- stances, inadvisable that his evic- The remarkable suggestion that tion from Manchuria should be

because of cancer is contagious, a belief which urged

personal the whole of the medical profession animosities or differences in poli- has previously refused to admit, ia tical principles and views. In his with Marshal contained in a letter to the "British personal talks Thirty-five years ago young trees Medical Journal" from Dr. J. Me- Chang, Mr. Yamamoto says, he at Kew were poorly grown as the Leod, of Ingleton, Carnforth, Lan- found that the anti-Japanese movement ini Manchuria had not result of unwise planting and cashire.

Dr. McLeod, in his letter gives in- been engineered by him, as alleged neglect of pruning; through the

stances of three men who were not by many Japanese. When his at- efforts of this expert these same known to be suffering from cancer trees are now well-developed and when they accepted gifts of pipes tention was called to the rumour prosperous. Better cultural methods from a friend, Mr. "X" after Mr. that he was at the bottom of the and careful, though in some cases "X" had smoked the pipes only movement, the Manchurian war- lord dismissed it as absolutely un- drastic, pruning have brought about once or twice. the improvements.

most experienced of tree specialista, who is now Keeper of Museums at Kew, on this subject of

"tree surgery."

Mr. "X" later died from cancer, founded, and declared that he and within the next year or two his could derive no benefit from the friends "A," "B," and "C" died prevalence of anti-Japonism in from cancer.

Manchuria.

And Beauty Treatment. The expert said that the lives of

"Indulgent" Pipe-Smokers. certain old trees, such as the oak,

Incorrect Forecasts. "Mr. X was an indulgent pipe- the, elm, the sweet chestnut and the

smoker," writes Dr. McLeod, "re- Mr. Yamamoto proceeds to put mulberry, could sometimes be pro-newing an attractive and expensive aside as incorrect various pessi- longed almost indefinitely by prun-type of pipe every few weeks. Ife mistic forecasts of the Sino- ing. Other trees, such as the had business dealings with 'A' 'B' Japanese negotiations. He de-i beech being shorter-lived naturally, and 'C, and presented each with nies the report that General do not pay for treatment.

one of these used pipes. Unknown Yang Yu-ting is unwilling to re- Holes found in old trees need to all concerned he was suffering treatment or the decay in them from cancer of the stomach, and present China in the parleys. Nor does he share the view of spreads until the tree ultimately A says Dr. McLeod, 'died of those who predict serious difficu!- dies. The dead and decaying wood cancer of the tongue and jaw, 'B ties ahead. So far as the Kirin- must be scraped cut; then the of cancer of the stomach, and C Hoinyung railway is concerned, wound must be treated with an un-of cancer of the bowel.

an agreement has already been tiseptic dressing--a 20 per cent.

"I leave the reader to draw his reached in broad outlines, and all solution of carbolic acid and a coat-own conclusions," adds Dr. McLeod, that is required is to fix details. A prominent London specialist In regard to the Ta-Tung line ing of coal tar. Finally the cavity

pointed out that the suggestion could be filled up.

opens up an entirely new field of also, an understanding has al- ready been reached. China made cancer theory.

died within the year.

He said they had used bricks and cement to l large cavities at Kew,

"It has been possible to transfer) a mistake in laying a line which finishing the surface with a cement cancer from one animal to another," runs parallel to the South Man- that would throw off rainwater. For he said, "in experimental work by churia Railway, but as the line has appearance' sake the cement could means of transplanting the growth, already been completed, nothing be coloured and the surface marked but never has a mouse, for instance, can be done at this late hour. in imitation of the bark, so that been infected through nibbling at Moreover, there is a widespread at a distance the filling would something at which a cancer mouse impression among the Chinese

has nibbled.

people that an outside Power has scarcely be dotected.

"Similarly, it has been proved, time and time again, that a man no right whatever to interfere who has cancer of the lip does not with the construction of a rail- As to the antiseptic dressing, this infect his wife with it although he way by China in her own terri- is necessary in the

case of every kisses her."

Healing The Wounds.

tree wound such as those made in

μ

pruning. The carbolic acid solu- LUNATICS' ATTACK.

tion, he explained, was a fungicide, and the tar prevents the vegetation

of any parasitic fungi that may fall MENTAL HOSPITAL INMATE'S

upon the wound afterwards.

Short trunked trees are less able,

DEATH.

At his interview with tory. Marshal Chang, the other day, therefore, the President of the

South Manchuria Railway Com

pany says, he simply reminded him that Japan could not tolerate any extension of the Ta-Tung line, and advised him to abandon The Singapore Coroner, Lieut.-any extension scheme, pointing with their large branchy heads, to Col. Hope-Falkner, was occupied on out to him that a keen competi- withstand violent storms than trees November 9 in recording the evid- tion between the new Chinese with a normal length of single ence relating to

the death of a railway and the South Manchuria trunk. Branches forming law on Chinese inmate of the Mental Hos- Railway in freight, etc., would pital, following an attack by five only prove inimical to the inter- other inmates, also Chinese.

esta of both. To this proposal, Evidence was to the effect that the Manchurian warlord readily

attendant saw five lunatics strike assented"Japan Chronicle." sixth with their fists. The at- tacked man fell down.

the trunk, therefore, should be restricted in growth for a few ycara, and in time pruned off al- together. In cutting away a branch the cut should be as clean as pos-4 sible, and should be flush with the bark of the tree.. Such a wound will heal in the same way as a flesh wound; but if a stump be left that stump will, in the course of time decay, and the decay will spread to the heart of the tree trunk.

Medical evidence disclosed that death was due to cerebral haemor- rhage.

Replying to the Coroner, Dr. Leicester stated that the shock

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In the museum at Kew devated which the brain received by the to British forestry there are speci- impact of the man's fall would have mens of good pruning in whichbeen sufficient to have caused rup-and Mrs. Crowe, MessTA. wounds a foot la diameter are al-ture of the amall blood vessels.

The deceased had been an Inmate most completely' healed over by since October, 1917. bark; moreover, a cross-cut speci- An attendant stated that in one Messrs. S. H. Gray E. Glaser. men reveals that new timber may

Messrs. A. F. Henry, L. C. Hurat, Mrs. G. Howard. form over the wound and the wound ward 150 inmates were under the

Messrs. J. E. Joseph, G. G. John- becomes only a slight blemish in care of a single attendant.

The Jury returned a verdict of

¿ton. the inner trunk. There are also death by misadventure. They found

Messrs. H. A. Keller, H. W. Kilby. exhibited specimens of bad pruning an attendant had been guilty of

Mr. D. W. Leach, Mias H. Lillie. in which a atump of a branch was

Messra, J. F. Maagdenburg,,C. E left by the praner, and it is to be negligence in not taking proper seen how decay has set in around! Precautions to prevent the continu- Minor, E. S. Moore, Mrs. M. L.

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Mr. G. D. Nichols. the stump and eaten its way into ance of the fight. They

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Mr. J. F. Pym, Mrs. M. E. Pig- section 822 of the English Lunacy Sometimes old trees

Act because in the existing state gathe

Messrs. W. Richmond, LH. "stagheaded" their tops go dead.of the law the superintendent can-

Rawson. This is due to a natural lowering not inflict on an attendant found Baron A: Sodonle,Baroness of the water level whence the tree guilty of neglect of duty a more Sodonie, Miss E. A. Serneff, derives its sustenance through heavy punishment than a fine or Messrs. J. Thomson, G. H. Turn- drainage development in its neigh- dismissal.

the heart of the tree.

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bourhood perhaps; or it may be due

to the roots reaching a stratum in

the soil-which they do not like,

Drastic praning well bleow the loval of the dead wood is the only remedy in this case. Such pruning had to be applied in recent years to fine old trees in Richmond Park whereat many tree-lovers were vry indignant. Had the pruning been less drastic, however, the decay could not have been checked.

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