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The Tree Doctor
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I take it as a compliment, thanks!
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- Northern California
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Davey Tree Expert Company
Excerpts taken from the Davey Bulletin, December 1984
75th Anniversary Issue
Roots of the Davey Tree Expert Company were firmly implanted in England 63 years before the company gained corporate status. It was on June 6, 1846, that John Davey was born at Stawley in Somersetshire on a farm where his father served as manager.
During John Davey's years of youth there were no public schools in rural England, hence no opportunity for him to gain an education. He was 21 before he learned his ABCs. At that age, too, he made an important decision---he would study horticulture and landscape gardening.
To fulfill that commitment, he went to Torquay in southern England, the home of famous gardens and greenhouses. He was apprenticed there for six years, completing his training at age 27.
Like millions of other sons of Europe, he heard the call to America....At age 27, he landed at Castle Garden, N.Y., in the spring of 1873. Soon after, he came to Warren, Ohio, and found work as a janitor at a private school.
[eventually]...he accepted a job at Standing Rock Cemetery in Kent, Ohio.
With his wife, whom he had met and married in Warren, he moved to Kent in 1881. His job was a challenging one. In existence for more than twenty years, Standing Rock Cemetery was overgrown with plants which were suffering from lack of care and poor planning....He worked out a careful plan for the grounds and transformed the cemetery into a place of striking beauty with new plantings of trees, shrubs and flowers.
He became a prolific writer of pamphlets and a frequent lecturer on natural subjects, and continued to preach his doctrine of tree surgery and the importance of maintaining a proper balance of nature.
By 1890, he became known as the "treeman of the town." John Davey and his eldest son, Wellington, planted hundreds of trees along the streets and around homes in the community and performed a modest amount of tree work. He became determined to gain acceptance of his methods for the care of trees, and he decided to write a book....
He worked 12 hours per day earning a meager living and then, at night, he meticulously prepared copy for a book for which he could find no financial backers. Dedicated to the preservation of trees, he assumed a debt of $7000 to meet the cost of printing.
The year was 1901. The Tree Doctor was published, a milestone in the career of John Davey and the science of tree preservation.
As a result of The Tree Doctor, more work came John Davey's way than he and his two sons, Wellington and Jim...could handle. John Davey began to train men in the new science as early as 1902....
With the same determination that had marked his whole life, he began the development of a tree care organization. He trained men, supervised their work, managed the expanding venture and still found time to write more books and articles and to give more lectures.
The Tree Doctor won the support of several prominent easterners, among them J. Horace McFarland, president of the American Civic Association....McFarland...arranged contracts with those leaders for...speaking engagements and tree clinics. Among those leaders was George Eastman, father of the Eastman Kodak Company who, in 1908, arranged for Davey to address some of the wealthiest citizens of Rochester, N.Y.
jp
Excerpts taken from the Davey Bulletin, December 1984
75th Anniversary Issue
Roots of the Davey Tree Expert Company were firmly implanted in England 63 years before the company gained corporate status. It was on June 6, 1846, that John Davey was born at Stawley in Somersetshire on a farm where his father served as manager.
During John Davey's years of youth there were no public schools in rural England, hence no opportunity for him to gain an education. He was 21 before he learned his ABCs. At that age, too, he made an important decision---he would study horticulture and landscape gardening.
To fulfill that commitment, he went to Torquay in southern England, the home of famous gardens and greenhouses. He was apprenticed there for six years, completing his training at age 27.
Like millions of other sons of Europe, he heard the call to America....At age 27, he landed at Castle Garden, N.Y., in the spring of 1873. Soon after, he came to Warren, Ohio, and found work as a janitor at a private school.
[eventually]...he accepted a job at Standing Rock Cemetery in Kent, Ohio.
With his wife, whom he had met and married in Warren, he moved to Kent in 1881. His job was a challenging one. In existence for more than twenty years, Standing Rock Cemetery was overgrown with plants which were suffering from lack of care and poor planning....He worked out a careful plan for the grounds and transformed the cemetery into a place of striking beauty with new plantings of trees, shrubs and flowers.
He became a prolific writer of pamphlets and a frequent lecturer on natural subjects, and continued to preach his doctrine of tree surgery and the importance of maintaining a proper balance of nature.
By 1890, he became known as the "treeman of the town." John Davey and his eldest son, Wellington, planted hundreds of trees along the streets and around homes in the community and performed a modest amount of tree work. He became determined to gain acceptance of his methods for the care of trees, and he decided to write a book....
He worked 12 hours per day earning a meager living and then, at night, he meticulously prepared copy for a book for which he could find no financial backers. Dedicated to the preservation of trees, he assumed a debt of $7000 to meet the cost of printing.
The year was 1901. The Tree Doctor was published, a milestone in the career of John Davey and the science of tree preservation.
As a result of The Tree Doctor, more work came John Davey's way than he and his two sons, Wellington and Jim...could handle. John Davey began to train men in the new science as early as 1902....
With the same determination that had marked his whole life, he began the development of a tree care organization. He trained men, supervised their work, managed the expanding venture and still found time to write more books and articles and to give more lectures.
The Tree Doctor won the support of several prominent easterners, among them J. Horace McFarland, president of the American Civic Association....McFarland...arranged contracts with those leaders for...speaking engagements and tree clinics. Among those leaders was George Eastman, father of the Eastman Kodak Company who, in 1908, arranged for Davey to address some of the wealthiest citizens of Rochester, N.Y.
jp
chris_girard
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I bought The Tree Doctor book on Amazon.com for 5.00 dollars, talk about a find!
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- Northern California
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The oldest tree book in my collection dates back to 1679. Some strange words in this one. The book was brought back from England in 1956 by Leslie Mayne and presented as a gift to my Grandfather. My grandmother willed the book to me in 1970. The word arborist was used in the text once on page 153.
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