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Waltham. — It is true that, as you say, large trees have done well when the 

 whole top has been cut off and grafted at once, but still we cannot advise it. 

 We seldom wholly change the top of a large tree in less than three years, and 

 frequently it takes longer before every limb is grafted that should be, and even 

 then the shock to the tree is quite as great as it will bear. But if you are 

 determined to try the experiment you will check its growth less by grafting 

 early than if you wait until it has come into leaf or nearly so. 



P. H. C, Clinton, Ky. The grapes came to hand, but not being quite ripe 

 when picked, and being in bad order when they reached us, it was difficult to 



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