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hole bored through the body of a tree, to receive the bolt 

 of the clevis, will not injure the tree in the least, if the hole 

 is afterwards filled with grafting-wax. We have bored a 

 hole through many trees five or more inches in diameter, 

 when about to remove them, and we have never known one 

 to be injured by the hole. 



Transplanting as Trees grew. It has been asserted, 

 times without number, that trees should always be marked 

 before they are taken up, so that they can be transplanted 

 just as they grew originally, with respect to the points of 

 the compass. Some philosophers, within a few years past, 

 have stated as a fact that there is an unknown influence 

 operating on fruit-trees, which induces the tops to incline 

 towards the south east. We have been told, also, that peo- 

 ple should always sleep with their heads due north. All 

 these things may. be of importance. But we do not repose 

 any confidence in one of the suggestions ; and it is extreme- 

 ly doubtful whether any one actually does know any thing 

 positively with regard to the facts in the case. Many trees 

 have been turned half way around when they were trans- 

 planted, and they produced bountiful crops. But no person 

 has ever been able to affirm that he knows that some or all 

 of those trees would have been more productive if they had 

 been transplanted exactly as they originally stood. 



