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ferent direction from the one to which the leader or main 

 shoot inclined. This method of extracting buds is also 

 successfully followed to produce a more dense growth in 

 many evergreens that are naturally of an open habit. 



Many of the upright growing Junipers as, for instance, 

 e/i communi^, and its varieties, Hibernica, Suedca, 

 etc., are greatly benefited by an annual pruning of the 

 over-luxuriant bran chlets, thereby causing them to thicken, 

 and otherwise vastly improve in appearance. When the 

 leader or main stem of a Conifer becomes destroyed by 

 accident or otherwise, a new one may readily be formed by 

 tying up a lateral in as nearly an upright position as pos- 

 sible. All of the species evidently endeavor to supply the 

 loss either from a dormant bud, or, in many instances, from 

 a prominent one on a side branch; but it is too often the 

 case that two leaders will start and cause a distortion, 

 which is often observed in so-called ornamental trees. 

 The strongest should be selected to remain, and the others 

 cut away as soon as noticed. 



When a tree is disposed to lean upon one side, a suitable 

 contrivance to remedy the defect is to fasten one end of a 

 strong wire to the main body of the tree near the top, 

 and secure the other end to a stout stake driven into the 

 ground a short distance off, taking care to wrap the body 

 of the tree with some soft substance, to preserve the bark 

 from injury. 



