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shoots than either the fall or spring, for the wounds 

 heal more freely, and the currents of sap flow more 

 abundantly to the top of the tree, as it is not retard- 

 ed and retained so much in its ascent by the under 

 shoots. 



Newly inoculated and grafted trees should now be 

 carefully looked over and any luxuriant shoots, that 

 are impoverishing the bud or graft should be taken 

 from the tree. This is a part of nursery business 

 generally too much neglected ; for in many instances 

 inoculated and grafted trees are neglected by allow- 

 ing young wood to grow from the stock under and 

 over the graft or bud, and the consequence is that 

 the buds or grafts are impoverished by being deprived 

 of the sap which should flow into them from the 

 stock. Every attention should now also be paid in 

 disbudding or breaking off useless growing wood, 

 and cleansing the trees from insects as they appear. 



When young trees are slender in their growth and 

 require to be supported by stakes it should now be 

 done, by placing straight stakes of a convenient 

 height near to them, and the slender shoots may be 

 tied up in a neat manner with bass or other strings : 

 indeed everything should now be done in the sup- 

 porting slender branches of trees, pruning, &c., re- 

 quired in the nursery. 



