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THE HEALING OF WOUNDS 



Very large branches may be raised and secured 

 in this way. Be careful to keep the old split well 



covered with wax or 

 thick paint. If it is 

 necessary to apply 

 long braces in the 

 top of the tree, it is 

 often advisable to run 

 short bolts through 

 the branches, and on 

 the inner ends to have 

 hooks or eyes into 

 which another rod 

 or a chain may be 

 secured, thus allow- 

 ing for the moving 

 of the branches in the wind. It is a common 

 practice to support crotches and weak branches 

 by putting bands or chains about them, but the 

 reader will at once see that this is wrong; and 

 Fig. 107 will fix the error in his mind. 



There is still another way of treating such cases 

 as Fig. 105. If a stub is left by the breaking of 

 the limb, the stump may be smoothed and cions 

 set in it freely, the remaining top being shortened- 

 in at the same time. One or two good branches 

 may be obtained from the cions, and the symmetry 

 of the tree be thereby restored. In Fig. 108, the 

 large branch on the right was grown from a cion 

 set between the bark and wood in a splintered 



106. Crotch held by a bolt. 



