of destruction to a certain extent, which like a disease, grows 

 worse every year. If the limbs are not taken off properly after 

 the circulation of the sap has stopped in that dead limb, it will 

 not only dry from the top but it will start to decay from the 

 heart of the limb as it will not stand the moisture from the live 

 part of the tree after being cut out of the natural order to take 

 up the sap supplied by the roots of the tree. This damage to 

 trees is not only in such cases where dead limbs are left until 

 they fall off themselves, the same result will be from all dead 

 limbs if they are left on the tree, therefore it is of great import- 

 ance to have all such limbs trimmed off close to the stem as 

 soon as the disease is noticed, this will not only prevent the tree 

 from decaying but also it will be much easier to grow over. It 

 is widely known, that hollow trees can be cemented air tight after 

 the inside of the tree has been thoroughly scraped and cleaned. 

 But even this will not give the pleasure of a long life tree. It 

 preserves the tree to a certain extent, but is often expensively 

 <lone. I use a healing salve for all ctits in trimming which is in 

 fact the best remedy known for healing cuts in trees. It consists 

 ->f a mixture of pine tar, bees wax, linseed oil and a little white 

 lead. This will not only aid to the healing of the cut on the tree 

 but it will keep it from exposure. 



THE DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS. 



The destroying of insects has been a great problem for years 

 and the damage done by insects every year is enormous and near- 

 ly all plants and trees have a destroying insect somehow adapted 

 to feed on the sap and foliage of the trees and plants. The work 

 of destroying insects has been carried out on a large scale and 

 many different ways and means are employed for this purpose. 

 In nearly all books of horticulture a great deal of advice is given 

 to this effect including the spraying of trees in the early spring, 



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