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If, however, the union is not perfected, the bandages should be 
replaced, leaving room for the expansion of the wood. Give sup- 
port by tieing securely, and carefully remove all suckers. Out the 
plant down in the fall to within three or four eyes of the present 
year’s growth. 
PROPAGATION BY LAYERING. 
The’ operation of layering is generally commenced before the 
ascent of the sap, or delayed until it is fully up. Any young 
shoot of eighteen inches or two feet in length will serve for this’ 
purpose. The shoot intended to become a new plant, first being 
gently bent to the ground, and an eye selected at a convenient 
distance from the mother plant, is half separated, about half an 
inch below the eye, as shown ata in fig. 15. While this permits 
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the ascent of the sap at the season of its rising, the remaining half, 
being cut through and separated, forms a dam or sluice to the de- 
Scending sap, which, thus interrupted in its progress, exudes at 
the wound, in the form of a granulous protruberance, which 
