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George Edward Stone, the best friend U.S. trees ever had, died last week, aged 80, in Amherst, Mass. His were the scientific discoveries which lie behind the modern craft of tree surgery. In a number of patent fights, when professional tree surgeons claimed exclusive rights to tricks of their trade, Stone proved that he had long before anticipated them...
When Stone was an undergraduate at Massachusetts Agricultural College, botanists were obsessed with taxonomy-classification of plants. But to Stone a tree was not a specimen but a dynamic organism influenced by a complex of environmental factors. In those days linesmen were stringing new telephone and power wires along U.S. streets, hacking mortal wounds in trees and often electrocuting them with leaky wires. New-laid gas pipes, too, were spreading out, poisoning roots along many a shady avenue. And several plagues of insect pests, chiefly in Massachusetts, quickened interest in guarding the health of trees...
After getting a Leipzig Ph.D., Stone returned to Massachusetts Agricultural College and began to teach a generation of botanists new conceptions of plant disease and care. He helped to found Massachusett's system of tree wardens, went about the U.S. diagnosing tree ailments, usually at a glance, and advising communities how to preserve their leanness from gas, electricity, insects, fungi, etc. A good hand with chisel and trowel, Stone devised methods of repairing trees. His teachings stimulated a host of tree surgeons and researchers, who learned to treat trees as living things...
Recent news in the craft of tree surgery...
...dramacritics could enjoy remembering that almost every one of them, with the exception of the late, wise Percy Hammond, had damned the play and said it had no chance. Last week Playwright Kirkland announced that he would give several of Tobacco Road's props-a wagon wheel, a tree branch, a well, a shack-to the Smithsonian Institution...