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niug- at the upper branches and scraping off all the moss and 

 loose bark, and so down the trunk to the ground. After this, a 

 washing of strong potash or lye water may be put on by a large 

 white-wash brush. Managed in this way, the old neglected trees 

 will put on a new dress, while the bark will present a smooth, 

 thrifty appearance. When large trees are headed down and 

 large limbs are taken off, the stumps or wounds should be covered 

 with gum shellac dissolved in alcohol to the consistency of thick 

 paint, and put on with a brush. On this point, most cultivators 

 understand that the wounds should be covered by some kind of 

 composition, where large limbs are taken off. But with judicious 

 yearly trimming, but few or no large limbs will need removing, 

 and so when the pruning is done in the summer or early fall with 

 only small limbs taken off, the shellac or composition may be dis- 

 pensed with. ^Vhere large trees of slow growth have been 

 grafted, it may be well to let all the sprouts grow for three or 

 four years, only cleaning them away around the grafts. This will 

 cause the tree to bring up the sap in a measure, otherwise cut off 

 by a removal of the top. Where large single trees standing in 

 pastures or meadows are wanted for shade, the top of the tree, 

 two-thirds do"wm, may be cut off and grafted, leaving the large 

 branches and boughs for shade until the grafted top is well 

 grown, so as to make shade when the lower limbs can be grafted. 

 In this way, you can renovate your scattering trees, and at the 

 same time retain the advantages of shade for men and animals. 



GREEN-HOUSE CLIMBING PLANTS. 



In a recent number of the Floricultural Cabinet, a correspondent 

 requires an answer on green-house creepers ; T therefore take the 

 liberty, through your widely circulated and intelligent publica- 

 tion, of forwarding a descriptive list of such as I grow — this 

 section of plants (climbers) being a great favorite of mine — as 

 well as an attempt to make a small return for the useful know- 

 ledge many othei's have afforded me in this Magazine. 



The following kinds are handsome, as well as free bloomers : — 

 Tecoma Spectabilis — The rich green shining foliage, and its 



