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trate these matters. In fig. 9 the stake is too short and too 

 tightly affixed to the trunk ; in fig. 10 it is also too short, but 

 as it is looser there is less risk of the head snapping off. Fig. 1 1 

 shows a young tree on the Thames Embankment too much 

 restricted. 



A very suitable description of tie is one that the lecturer first 

 saw in use in the gardens of Mr. Warren, of Handcross Park, 

 Sussex. It was made of straw, and its construction can readily be 

 understood from the annexed woodcuts (figs. 12 and 13). Another 

 method of affixing a tree loosely but securely is shown in fig. 14. 



Fig. 9. Fig. 10. 



Where circumstances permit of its being carried out, a better 

 plan than staking is to drive into the ground in an oblique direc- 

 tion, pointing outwards, three stakes at equal distances from the 

 base of the tree, so as to form a triangle. The tree itself, at a 

 height of four or five feet, is encircled by a ring of felt or 



