fHE Canadian Horticulturist. 



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attained any great growth. Discover whether the limbs need to be cut off before 

 they have reached the size of the arm. Prune the young trees so that they will 

 form an even head, giving the heaviest amount of shade on the south side, to 

 shield from the hot sun. Use a colored glass with a magnifying power to dis- 

 cover the insects on the limbs in broad daylight, and then clip off the twigs with 

 the eggs or nests on them to burn. — S. W. (Chambers in 'Germantown Telegram. 



ARCH-GRAFTING. 



While paying a visit to the apiary of Mr. Post, of Murray, Ont., my atten- 

 tion was directed to some fine Ben Davis trees seventeen years planted, which 

 were very large and thrifty, and heavily loaded ; but all possibility of splitting 

 under their weight of fruit was precluded by a system of arch-grafting, which 

 operation had been performed on the trees while young. Wherever the tree 



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had a fork a branch from each side of the tree was bent together and tied or 

 grafted, when they soon grew into one body as shown in the illustration {a), 

 holding the two parts of the tree as firmly together as though they had never 

 separated. 



From my observation I am convinced that by thus attending to young trees 

 very many might be saved which would otherwise split and be destroyed when 

 they came to bear a full load of fruit. 



Chisholm^ Ont. Wm. B. Leveans. 



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