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TO PREVENT GIRDLING. 



with grafting wax or waxed cloth. To prevent the wax from 

 melting- and running, a cloth may be put around as in Fig. 2. It 

 the covering be removed in August, as it should be, the union 

 of the cions will be found complete, 

 and in a few years will grow together 

 and a new outside trunk be formed. 

 [Prof S. T. Maynard, Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 



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