Z6 EVERGREENS. 



3rd: Defend in some way the seedlings most liable to the- 

 damps or blight. Many growers have dry sand ready to use- 

 with the first symptoms of the trouble. 



How to Make Lath Sections: After using various methods 

 for years, I finally adopted the following plan, which has the- 

 approval of Prof. Green and others: Lay aside sixteen com- 

 mon lath for a, square. Take three picket lath, about a half 

 an inch thick, put one in the center and one at each end. As 

 you nail them on, push every other lath about two inches be- 

 yond your end cross piece. This makes your section a little- 

 over four feet wide, so that it will readily catch on the four 

 foot sides of your pen. Understand, your pen is made 8x32 feet 

 with a, strip running through the center, whicn really ma-kes two- 

 spaces, 4x32. It takes eight lath squares to cover one space 

 and sixteen to cover the whole. As the sides will sometimes- 

 spread you will see the need of ha\-ing your squares a little 

 more than four feet wide. Saw one of your thick laths in two, 

 and brace your square or it will work all out of shape. One 

 thick Lath will make a brace for two squares. I often have a 

 dozen of these pens and squares to match. When not in use 

 the squares should be stored. These pens with their coverings 

 are just the thing for raising perennials or starting early gar- 

 den vegetables, as by their use you avoid the drying winds of 

 spring. It you use the tall screen system, these squares can- 

 be placed overhead, and you can fasten them with binding 

 twine so you can remove them and let in more sun, if you 

 choose. They are good things for the average farmer or gar- 

 dener to have. Tou can make your pens 4x12 or 4x16, or use 

 the double pen mentioned above. 



Other iVlodes of Propagation; While Conifers are mostly 

 raised from: seeds, in some cases grafting is done. .For in- 

 stance, the Pungens is put on the Norway Spruce. The work 

 is usually done with potted plants in a greenhouse and none 

 but an expert need attempt it. Grafting evergreens out of 

 doors, as in the case of the deciduous trees, would be an utter 

 waste of time. There are an almost infinite number of types 

 and variations in the different species. Take for instance the 

 Chinese, Siberian, and American Arborvitaes, their name is 

 legion. These sports are propagated by bottom heat in green- 

 houses, but it takes great skill and care and I have known 

 hundreds' to be killed by a slight oversight. 



Some claim they can raise any kind of an evergreen by 

 cutting off small thrifty shoots in the fall, shearing off the low- 

 er leaves and putting in cold storage, or in a cold place for two 

 or three months, and then subjecting them to bottom heat; but 

 the process will seldom work. 



