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fall to ripen their wood and form strong, vig- 

 orous buds ready for the work of the coming 

 season. Consequently they go into the winter 

 with half -grown green leaves on their tips, 

 only to be frozen, in leaf and twig so that the 

 pruning shears will have to be used vigorously 

 in the spring, to remove the injured wood with 

 its brown pith. Frequently the bodies are so 

 green and full of sap that the freezing bursts 

 their bark and the tree is injured or killed. 



Thus we conclude it is because of too long, 

 rather than too rapid a growth, that these in- 

 juries occur. We should mark well the dif- 

 ference between the too rapi^ and too long a 

 growth. The remedy suggested would be to 

 cease cultivation earlier in the season, if this 

 did not prove effective and the weather con- 

 tinued very seasonable, (that is, an abundance 

 of moisture) then it might be necessary to re- 

 sort to the practice under discussion, namely, 

 the growing of plants to control the growth of 

 other plants. In this case the object should 

 be to utilize the surplus moisture by seeding 

 to some quick growing plants such as oats. 

 These oat plants will use the moisture and 

 thereby deprive or rob the trees to such an 

 extent that the growth will cease, the wood 

 will ripen and the buds mature readv for 



