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stood that the trees should be immersed only for a moment — just 

 dipped in the wax and then quickly withdrawn. 



I have been talking over this experiment with a number 

 of people and I have found a great deal of interest. I felt 

 rather pleased Avitli the result so I thought I would try and get the 

 benefit of the experience of other people. I sent a copy of another 

 article along the same lines as this one to a number of my friends in 

 this country and the United States and I received many valuable re- 

 plies. To my great surprise I found it was a new idea. It may not 

 be new to some of you but it was new to the folks who replied to my 

 letter. In talking over the possibilities of the application of this idea 

 to nursery practice one nurseryman told me that he thought it would 

 be a very good plan for him to follow and had he known the possi- 

 bilities of parafine wax to keep his rose plants in better condition he 

 could have saved his firm $1000 last spring. 



We have worked out a system of budding over old grafted sweet 

 cherry trees in which parafine is used as the most important pro- 

 tecting material. I started pruning sweet cherry trees with a great 

 deal of faith and little experience and ended up with little faith and 

 more experience. I studied the failures carefully and came to the 

 conclusion that they were due to lack of protection. I changed my 

 methods and the principal change I made was the use of parafine 

 wax as a coating to my scions and to the buds and the next year I got 

 excellent results. I got 90% success in comparison to 90% failure 

 tlie year before. a 



Mr. Gellatly: I have shipped waxed scions successfully to 

 Pekin, China. I like a mixture of parafine wax. The wax alone 

 cracks and leaves fissures through which the moisture escapes. 



Mr. G. H. Corsan: If you droj) into the old soldiers' home at 

 Dayton, Ohio, you will see one of those fern leaf beeches on which 

 the nuts are fat. Not far from there is the red leaf beech, which 

 also had some nuts on it. 



Near Port Carling I saw a beech tree that had very large nuts 

 on, twice the size of the average. I looked over in tlie yard and I 

 saw that the tree was in a pig pen. In a sandy section in the east end 



