BRIDGE -GRAFTING 121 



such a bridge -grafted tree, as it looked seventeen 

 years after the work was done. This specimen was 

 reported in The Rural New-Yorker in 1892 by Leroy 

 Whitford; the picture is reproduced from that paper. 



100. Cross-section of bridge-grafted tree. 



Body wounds on trees may be treated in the 

 same way as girdles, dress the edges back to live 

 bark, scrape out all splintered and decayed wood, 

 apply Bordeaux mixture or paint (or other anti- 

 septic), then cover with wax. Fig. 101 shows 



