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In a North Carolina bulletin Massey describes 

 methods for protection from winter weather : "On 

 the coast, in the immediate vicinity of salt water, it 

 will need no winter protection. But in the cold 

 western part of the State the method I have found 

 successful in Maryland will do equally well. This 

 is to branch the trees from the ground, and in fall, 

 after the frost has cut the leaves, bend down the 

 branches to the ground and pin them fast, and then 

 pile the earth over them, mounding it over the 

 center and sloping to the outside so as to throw off 

 the water, or gather the limbs like a cross on the 

 ground and cover each bunch separately with a 

 higher mound in the center, like a four pointed 

 star. They will keep perfectly in cold climates in 

 this way. " In milder sections "the best way pos- 

 sible, though very tedious and troublesome, is to 

 thatch each limb and the stem thickly with broom 

 sedge, wrapped on with cotton twine. This is the 

 best protection I have ever tried. But the bending 

 down and covering with pine boughs usually an- 

 swers very well." 



SUXBURN. 



It is important to prevent sunburn, as fig borers 

 find ready entrance when bark is removed, greatly 

 hastening decay even to the pith of the branches. 

 Whether this injury occurs in summer or winter it 

 can be prevented by protecting trunks from direct 

 rays of the sun. 



