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manure. Advantage should be taken to do this kind 

 of work on fine, dry days when the weeds may per- 

 ish shortly after being severed from the soil : and if 

 there be a quantity of seedlings it will be well to give 

 the ground a good rough raking after the /ioe, to 

 bring the young tender weeds on the surface of the 

 ground, in order that the sun may act on them and 

 that they may shortly die, and not again re-establish 

 themselves in the soil. At this time also every walk 

 should be examined, hoed and cleared, so that every 

 part of the nursery has a clean and orderly appear- 

 ance. 



(The trees should also be gone over and divested 

 of any insects or other nuisances that retard their 

 growth. 



Art. 2. — Summer Pruning and supporting young 

 Trees. 



When young trees have nearly made their sum- 

 mer growth, which is at the end of July, or begin- 

 ning of August, they should be pruned of all useless 

 shoots ; for this purpose a sharp knife may be used, 

 and great care should be taken that the wounds are 

 cut clean so that they may heal freely. When the in- 

 cision is badly done with rough edged tools, it is 

 seldom that they form a callous readily, and often 

 the part becomes cankered, turns black and is other- 

 wise injured, so that the connecting limbs or plants 

 are affected, and from thence in many cases the in- 

 jury extends to every part of the tree. Where trees 

 are intended to be made standards of five or six 

 feet from dwarfs that have strong leading shoots, 

 this is a more proper time to prune off the under 

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