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of slaters' cement will become more common as 

 the method of making two applications, one for 

 sterilization and one for protection, is more widely 

 adopted. Dr. G. E. Stone tells me he has had 

 good success with the brand manufactured by the 

 W. F. Webster Cement Company of Cambridge, 

 Mass. Slaters' cement has the advantage of be- 

 ing very inexpensive. 



Grafting wax is too expensive and adheres too 

 imperfectly to entitle it to a place as a regular 

 dressing, but the liquid form has important special 

 uses. It is the best thing to apply to fresh 

 wounds, because it does not in the least injure the 

 cambium. The wax can be made at home accord- 

 ing to the recipes to be found in Bailey's " Horti- 

 culturalist's Rule-Book," or it can be bought, cost- 

 ing about forty cents a pound. To make liquid 

 wax of the ordinary kind, heat it and mix about 

 half its weight of alcohol with it. It may be well 

 to give Bailey's recipe for " Lefort's liquid graft- 

 ing wax." u Best white resin, one pound; beef 

 tallow, one ounce; remove from the fire and add 

 eight ounces of alcohol. Keep in closed bottles 

 or cans." 



Next to paint, tar has been the material most 

 commonly used as a dressing for wounds. There 

 are several different kinds of tar. To dispose 

 first of the undesirable ones, the material known 

 as " coal tar paint " is merely a solution of some 



