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THE HEALING OF WOUNDS 



the pruning of trained trees, European gardeners 

 often take off the shoots in winter when there 

 is time to spare, leaving the stubs two or three 

 inches longer than desired; in spring an assistant, 

 who may have had insufficient experience to en- 



84. In memory of the 

 pruner. 



85. 



The bulge at the base 

 of the branch. 



able him to block out the pruning, goes over the 

 trees and cuts back the stubs to a fresh bud. 



The reader has already seen in Fig. 73 the 

 monument which a man erected to his memory. 

 It is a stump which is so long that it cannot be 

 healed over; for, as we have seen, a leafless and 



