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covering the root again with loose earth, when it can easily be pulled 

 out by hand when wanted. Before delivery or planting the trees should 

 be carefully gone over with shears and pruning saw, cutting off all 

 broken roots and ragged ends back to good tissue, trimming off all 



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FIG. 45. 1, a good graft union and root; 2, a good graft union and ideal branching 

 root. A, original seedling nut ; B, graft union ; C, upper end of original scion. 



remains of sprouts or stubs of any sort and cleaning them up into a good 

 sound root and a clean stem. All cuts on the crown or stem should be 

 covered with grafting wax. Fig. 46 1 shows a grafted tree which has 

 made a very poor union, leaving a large, dead, decaying stub where the 



