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ting on grafts, but (•lo^^n grafting is the simplest, and we believe the 

 most common. The great success of grafting lies in placing the two inner 

 barks neatly in contact and excluding the air. In grafting we would 

 recommend the following wax to put over the matting instead of clay : — 

 four parts of rosin, one part of beeswax, and one part of tallow 

 melted together, well mixed, and applied hot. 



During fine weatlier sow furze seed on the top of ditches, round 

 newly-formed plantations. Between six and seven pounds of seed 

 will sow one mile of a single line. If for feeding purposes sow broad- 

 cast thirty pounds of seed per Irish acre. 



Ballmacourte, Tippercmj. D. Sym Scott. 



WALES. 



The present month is not unfavourable for transplanting evergreens, 

 providing they are raised with good balls of earth, and immediately 

 transferred to their new site, and planted at once in moderately 

 sheltered situations. Newly transplanted trees or shrubs of moderate 

 size should be securely staked or moored with cord or wire, to prevent 

 their being blown over, or the roots shaken by the wind. 



Look round all young and recently planted trees, and where they 

 have been blown about by the wind, have them, put straight and 

 firmed, which is easily done by a stamp with the heel of the foot ; or 

 where they have been much swayed, and a hole round the collar, add a 

 little soil before stamping. If such plants are not attended to the 

 bark soon gets chapped and broken by the friction as the ground gets 

 hard. 



Continue repairing fences and protections of all sorts as last 

 month. 



Should we be favoured with mild and warm weather, bark stripping 

 may have to be commenced before the end of the present month ; 

 within the last ten years we have generally commenced to peel oak in 

 the month of April, but last year we were considerably later than 

 usual. However, under any circumstances it will be well to be fully 

 prepared to proceed with the work, by having all tools and other 

 preparations made ready in due course, and avoid delays and draw- 

 backs after the work commences. 



Continue transplanting evergreens in nursery, if not already 

 finished. Dig and hoe between plants that have stood over a year 

 in the rows ; and level and rake in the course of a week after. 



Hoe and clean carriage drives and gravel walks, and mow lawns and 

 pleasure-grounds, also hoe and rake beds and borders, and prune 

 laurels, &c. 



Kinvicl Park, Abergele. Lewis Bayne. 



