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ferent direction from the one to which the leader or main 

 shoot inclined. This method of extracting buds is also 

 successfully followed to produce a more dense growth in 

 many evergreens that are naturally of an open habit. 



Many of the upright growing Junipers as, for instance, 

 J. communis, and its varieties, Hibernica, Suecica, 

 etc., are greatly benefited by an annual pruning of the 

 over-luxuriant bran chlets, thereby causing them to thicken, 

 and otherwise vastly improve in appearance. When the 

 leader or main stem of a Conifer becomes destroyed by 

 accident or otherwise, a new one may readily be formed by 

 tying up a lateral in as nearly an upright position as pos- 

 sible. All of the species evidently endeavor to supply the 

 loss either from a dormant bud, or, in many instances, from 

 a prominent one on a side branch; but it is too often the 

 case that two leaders will start and cause a distortion, 

 which is often observed in so-called ornamental trees. 

 The strongest should be selected to remain, and the others 

 cut away as soon as noticed. 



When a tree is disposed to lean upon one side, a suitable 

 contrivance to remedy the defect is to fasten one end of a 

 strong wire to the main body of the tree near the top, 

 and secure the other end to a stout stake driven into the 

 ground a short distance off, taking care to wrap the body 

 of the tree with some soft substance, to preserve the bark 

 from injury. 



