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needed, and seldom where they will do injury. A branch should never be 

 lopped because it hatigs too low; all such being of great value to trees in 

 open grounds, for the purpose of shading the trunk, where the unbroken 

 rays of a July sun will do more mischief than hard winters, borers, and 

 all other deleterious causes, combined. And when a branch appears to 

 crowd the top, if it is cut away, an unsightly opening will be obvious at 

 once. The saw and chisel are used by far too much. A common clasp- 

 knife is all that is necessarj.' for ordinary pruning. But there are cases 

 where the saw may be used to advantage, — when two limbs interfere so 

 that both will be injured if one is not cut away, and when a branch is 

 broken by high winds or otherwise. All such pruning should be done in the 

 month of July, when more sap is in the top of the trees than at any other 

 period. 



The descending sap from August till November forms the annular ring 

 of new wood, and in it permanent ducts for the passage of ascending sap 

 the succeeding spring. If we cut away one-half the top of any tree while 

 the sap is down, double the usual amount will find its way into the remain- 

 ing branches ; thus crowding the ducts so as to force water-sprouts, much 

 in the nature of leaks sprung in the embankment of an overcharged reser- 

 voir. But this may be avoided by cutting the branches Avhile the sap is 

 up. Sever a limb in July, and part of the descending sap will moisten the 

 wound, even keeping it as green wood, almost to the very edge of the cut ; 

 while the remaining portion will form a callus around the injured part, with 

 proper ducts, through which the sap will ascend next spring as regularly 

 and healthfully as though no branch had ever been there. The cut will 

 soon heal over, and the tree remain as sound as if no amputation had taken 

 place. y. Milleson. 



Shelbyvillb, Inij. 



JUCUNDA STRAWBERRIES. 



We send strawberries five hundred miles to market. Have sent Jucunda 

 to New York, and it arrived in good condition, and sold for more money 

 per quart than the Wilson's Albany, grown near the city. — Mr. Hoag, 

 Lockport, A'^. v. 



