Would you trust your tree with this man?
Bone shards:
I didn’t realize that tree surgeons were a thing until I read a bit about the profession in a Straight Dope column about Groucho Marx by Cecil Adams. Yes, you should read the entire column.
Way back in the day, Groucho Marx hosted a radio/TV quiz show called “You Bet Your Life. During one show when he was interviewing a tree surgeon, he asked, “Have you ever fallen out of any of your patients?”
Read one heck of an obituary for Groucho here.
And now you know about tree surgeons too.
The ad copy:
To whom shall you entrust your priceless trees?
A scientist’s answer
A letter from Dr. H. D. House, New York State Botanist and formerly professor in the Biltmore Foresty School
Mr. M. L. Davey, General Manager, Davey Tree Expert Company, Kent, O.
Dear Mr. Davey:
I believe that I owe you many thanks for the opportunity which I have had just recently of seeing the Davey organization in convention at Kent.
I was deeply impressed by the mutual determination of your men to accomplish perfect work and to place quality above all other considerations. This and the trained ability and coöperation of your men are doing much to restore that confidence in the profession of tree surgery which has been great injured by poorly trained and unscrupulous workers.
After an inspection of work accomplished by your men and a study of their methods, I am convinced that their work measures up to the highest degree of efficiency which training and experience can produce. I believe that owners of trees may expect service of the most reliable character from your men.
Very truly yours,
H. D. House,
State Botanist.
Write for Free Examination of Your Trees
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The Davey Tree Expert Co., Inc.
204 Elm Street, Kent, Ohio
(Operating the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery)
Brand Offices, with Telephone Connections:
225 Fifth Avenue, New York
2017 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia
450 McCormack Bldg., Chicago
Permanent representatives located at Boston, Newport, Lenox, Hartford, Albany, Poughkeepsie, White Plains, Stamford, Jamaica, L. I., Morristown, N.J., Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Baltimore, Washington, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City. Canadian address: 81 St. Peter Street, Quebec.
John Davey
Father of Tree Surgery
Davey Tree Surgeons