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■well until comparatively late in the 

 spring. 



The dead bark is cut away from the 

 wound or girdle on the trunk or branch 

 and the green bark is evened up all 

 around the edge of* the wound. Cuts 

 about an inch long are made up and 

 down the bark from the edge of the 

 wound, wherever the scion is to be in- 

 serted. Scions should not be placed 

 closer than an inch and a half to two 

 inches apart because there is danger of 

 lifting up the bark between if they are 

 set too close. The scion is sharpened 

 at one end into a wedge similar to that 

 used for cleft grafting and this wedge 

 is inserted under the bark at the point 

 where the vertical cut has been made. 

 The distance needed for the bridge is 

 then measured, leaving the scion long 

 enough to bow out somewhat, and the 

 other end of the scion is sharpened to 

 a wedge in like manner and inserted. 

 The grafts are then tied at the point of 

 union with strong cotton twine or are 

 tacked with fine Ijrads. Tlicy are then 

 waxed well with liquid grafting wax 

 made according to the second formula 

 given above. If twine is used it should 

 be cut within two or three weeks. Later 



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on in the season, when the tree trunk 

 is entirely dry the bare wood under the 

 scions should be painted with white 

 lead and raw linseed oil, or with D or E 

 grades of asphaltum. These prepara- 

 tions are much better than grafting 

 wax, because grafting wax holds moist- 

 ure underneath it and allows fungi to 

 make growth there. 



Many valuable trees have been saved 

 to their owners in this very simple 

 way. When a tree has been badly 

 girdled it is well to follow the bridge 

 grafting with a rather heavy pruning 

 of the top. 



Prevention of Injuries: It is well to 

 bear in mind that much of this trouble 

 can be prevented by a little care. When 



trees are young, they can be protected 

 by wood veneer wrappers or wire pro- 

 tectors. Mice frequently do their 

 girdling because grass, clover or alfalfa 

 sod is allowed to grow about the trees, 

 and they find this a hiding place during 

 the winter. Again, after a heavy snow 

 storm, mice may be prevented from 

 working on the trees by packing the 

 snow down around the trunk with the 

 foot. Cultivation must be done as care- 

 fully as possible, and spraying must be 

 thorough in order to control anthrac- 

 nose. The only remedy for fire blight 

 and cherry gummosis is to cut out the 

 diseased portions as early in the season 

 as possible and sterilize tools and cut 

 surfaces. 



Pruning 



By Wm. H. Sawyer, 



THE one thing, when we start to 

 prune a tree of any sort, to get 

 clearly in our mind is the object of 

 pruning at all. Why do we prune? 

 Some of the pruning we see done would 

 seem to indicate that the pruner had 

 an impression that the only object was 

 to cut off part of the limbs, and which 

 ones or when, or how, seemed to be a 

 matter of no consequence. But that is 

 a great mistake. I never allow a pruner 

 upon my trees to cut olY a single limb 

 of any size unless he can give a definite 

 reason for cutting that particular limb 

 in preference to others near-by. 



The things to be accomplished by 

 pruning are definite and easily ex- 



Wapato, Washington 



plained: The first object is to so shape 

 the tree that it can develop and hold up 

 a large or full crop of fruit, and the 

 second object is to have the trees so 

 shaped that the fruit produced will be 

 of fine quality, and healthy and at- 

 tractive in appearance. In the case of 

 the Bartlett pear, which is the tree I 

 have especially in mind at this time, to 

 produce the first object, the limbs 

 should be so distributed that the load 

 will balance as nearly as possible over 

 the center of gravity. Avoid hollow 

 centers; but to secure our second object 

 the whole tree must be kept so open 

 by cutting away the shading limbs, that 

 air and light can reach every piece of 



