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our notice until too Lirgo. These should be removed with a fine 

 saw and the wound cemented. The best cement I have ever used 

 is made by simmering a quart of pine tar over a slow fire for three 

 hours, then adding .'? ounces of tallow, ^ a pound of beeswax and | 

 of a pound of rosin. When these are thoroughly molted and mixed 

 b3' stirring, the dish should be taken from the fire and the contents 

 allowed to partially cool. Then have ready 1^ pounds of dry and 

 finel}' powdered clay, which must be gradually stirred into the melted 

 wax, continuing the stirring until it becomes so thick b}' cooling that 

 the clay will not settle. This cement is soft at ordinary- temper- 

 atures during the spring, summer and fall, and can be spread with 1 

 the point of a knife. It remains soft and pliable for man}' 3'ears, . 

 yielding to the growth of the young wood, and can be pushed back 

 into any crevice with the end of the finger. It forms a perfect pro- 

 tection from the air and external moisture until the wound is healed. 

 I should have mentioned that with trees as I grow them, properly 

 dug with plent}- of roots, and properly set out, there is no need of 

 cutting back the limbs when transplanted. 1 object to cutting a 

 tree at that time as more injurious than at any other, and witli the 

 small top of five or six branches of only a single year's growth, it 

 is quite uunecessar}'. 



Any reader of this who wishes further information by letter I 

 shall be glad to oblige if he will write to me and enclose in his letter 

 a stamped and directed return envelope. 



