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is then inserted into the loop of cord and twisted about until the part 

 of the cord about the stock wound is so snug that it holds the cion in 

 place more firmly than it can be held by any sort of wrapping. In or- 

 der to prevent the cord from cutting into the bark one or two shields 

 of wood may be interposed between cord and bark. The twister of the 

 Spanish windlass is made fast with a staple driven into any convenient 

 holding point on the stock in order to prevent the windlass from un- 

 winding. . . . If we have cord that is strong enough and slippery 

 enough, as with cord treated with paraffin, the tightening of the cord 

 in the course of growing enlargement of the stock results in automatic 

 unwinding of the cord nearest to the stock and compensating winding 

 up at the twister end. This . . . allows the graft to be left with- 

 out attention for a year or more excepting for the bracing which should 

 be given all large shoots. If the Spanish windlass is not applied skill- 

 fully with the right sort of cord the cord is burst asunder by the grow- 

 ing stock. This, however, does no harm because the graft is by that 

 time well under way." 



Doctor Morris's ingenuity is again illustrated in the paraffin- 

 melting pot that he has designed and that should prove 

 invaluable to any one following in his footsteps. This con- 

 sists of a lantern of the ordinary railroad conductor's type 



equipped to burn alcohol instead of oil (to avoid smoking) 

 with a glass beaker to hold the paraffin inserted down through 

 the top within the chimney which both protects the flame 

 and helps to keep the paraffin of the right consistency. A 

 heater of this sort is now obtainable as a manufactured 

 article. 



That complicated equipment and difficult manipulations are 

 quite foreign to the improved grafting methods was brought 

 home by noticing a clean and healthy union of two years or more 

 standing on a Black Walnut tree; a union, by the way, that 

 appeared to have resulted from a simple graft such as we usually 

 associate with root rather than top grafting. The surface of 

 stock and cion had been shaped with an ordinary block plane 

 instead of a knife, giving a truer junction and a more certain 

 union than otherwise possible. In fact, Doctor Morris stated 

 that his "block plane method" had given such good results 

 both with small grafts and with larger ones in which he found 

 it best to fasten cion to stock by nailing, that he looked forward 

 to using the plane much more freely in his future work, at the 

 expense of the knife. 



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HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS AS THE MAINSTAY OF THE FALL GARDEN 



To be had in a wide range of colors and shapes, these virile, late-blooming plants are the summer's 

 last triumph, her final, defiant flaming up into beauty before the chill breath of winter strikes 



