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one's time, and does far better work than could 

 ever be done by the old method. 



If the wax should prove to be too soft and 

 sticky, as is sometimes the case in very warm 

 weather, melt it over again with more resin 

 added. If too brittle, add a little more linseed 

 oil so as to bring it to the right consistency to 

 spread well, and at the same time "set" well on 

 cooling. It gives the most satisfactory results 

 when about the consistency of ordinary chewing 

 gum. 



Properly applied, the wax serves as a valuable 

 protective and germ-excluding dressing, com- 

 parable in its function to the aseptic dressing 

 applied by the surgeon to wounds or after oper- 

 ations. 



MULTIPLICATION BY BUDDING 



There is one form of grafting which differs so 

 radically from other methods that it is often 

 thought of and spoken of as if it were a totally 

 different method. This is "budding" ; that is to 

 say, the process of transplanting a single bud 

 from one tree to another. This is really only a 

 special case of grafting; it differs from other 

 methods only in that in ordinary grafting the 

 cion usually has several buds instead of a single 

 one. As a practical procedure, therefore, bud- 

 ding has the advantage of supplying several 



