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make their summer shoots, the trees should be gone 

 over and divested of any shoot that may grow from 

 the stock ; which will impoverish the growth of the 

 bud intended to form the head of the tree. When 

 the shoot from the bud is some inches long, it may 

 be tied to the stick (before mentioned) with bass or 

 other string, in a manner to guard it against storms or 

 winds ; in this process, care must be taken that the 

 strings are not tied too tight, which will cut the 

 young wood ; every attention should be paid during 

 the season, to the growth of the young wood, by 

 keeping off any insect, taking off the dead leaves, 

 and the like. In the following spring, the snag or 

 piece of dead wood left above the bud to protect it, 

 should be cut off neatly close to it, so that the wood 

 heals freely. 



ART. 5. On the Management of Grafts. 



The principal care required in grafts, is to look 

 them over in the spring, and to see that the compo- 

 sition or covering remains in a safe state ; and if 

 there be any of the bandage either falling off by ac- 

 cident or otherwise displaced, it should be immedi- 

 ately replaced, that the air may not have access to the 

 wound where the graft is united to the tree, which, 

 in most cases, is the cause of a failure. When the 

 graft is united and begins to make a growth, the 

 bandage, if bandage has been used, may be taken off 

 to prevent it from cutting the graft, which in many 

 cases, is the cause of its being blown from the trees 

 in stormy seasons, as the bark and wood is often in 

 this case cut nearly half asunder by the bandage. 

 If the grafts grow very luxuriantly in the spring. 



