Bark-binding

Bark-binding is a disease in trees, cured by slitting the bark, or cutting it along the grain of the tree.

Further reading

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Bark-binding". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. p. 82.
• Crabb, George. The Book of Knowledge: Or, An Explanation of Words and Things Connected with All the Arts... Leavitt & Allen. 1858.
• Lyon, Patrick (1816). A Treatise on the Physiology and Pathology of Trees: With Observations on the Barrenness and Canker of Fruit Trees. p. 121.