Dealing with cavities

[sean]

Taken from the book 'Ornamental Trees for Amateurs'  by W.J.Bean who was curator at Kew Gardens. Some good advice here lads.

 

[Mark Bolam]

Cheers Sean, I'll give that a try.

[Marula]

This goes against everything I was taught. I was taught that fungi cannot grow under water i.e. In the water filled cavity. Maybe David could clear this up?

[Marula]

I've just done some digging and this is old science.

[sean]

57 minutes ago, SWORDSTA said:

I've just done some digging and this is old science.

Really??? I dhave thought you would have known it was old science just by reading it. The book is from the 1920's btw. 

[TIMON]

Cheers Sean, I'll give that a try.

Should save you a fortune in concrete Mark! [emoji51]

[Stubby]

29 minutes ago, sean said:

Really??? I dhave thought you would have known it was old science just by reading it. The book is from the 1920's btw. 

So when you said "  some good advice here lads " It was tongue in cheek ......

[sean]

1 hour ago, Stubby said:

So when you said "  some good advice here lads " It was tongue in cheek ......

Umm yea .....I did post a cheeky winking emoji but it wouldn't let me post until said emoji was removed.

[Gary Prentice]

I think I've a copy of that book, although I forget reading that particular passage. 

 

The history of arboriculture and forestry is fascinating, what our predecessors got right, and really wrong. I've been reading a bit about the Davey Tree Co recently and a lot of ideas were pretty near the mark ( and a lot way off)

 

What's that saying? 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'.

[Marula]

Really??? I dhave thought you would have known it was old science just by reading it. The book is from the 1920's btw. 

Well I haven't read it you toenail! And when I said "digging" I was being flippant.
With some of the bollocks that comes up on this forum sometimes it's hard to tell what was meant to be up for a laugh, there's another thread where Olly spikes trees to prune them so this didn't seem that outrageous.