. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 159. Bridge-graft-ing a girdle. Repairing street trees. The following advice on tree surgery is by A. D. Taylor(Bulletin 256, Cornell University, from which the accompany-ing illustrations are adapted): — 1 A good grafting-wax is made as follows: Into a kettle place one part byweight of tallow, two parts of beeswax, four parts of rosin. When completelymelted, pour into a tub or pail of cold water, then work it with the hands(which should be greased) until it
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . 159. Bridge-graft-ing a girdle. Repairing street trees. The following advice on tree surgery is by A. D. Taylor(Bulletin 256, Cornell University, from which the accompany-ing illustrations are adapted): — 1 A good grafting-wax is made as follows: Into a kettle place one part byweight of tallow, two parts of beeswax, four parts of rosin. When completelymelted, pour into a tub or pail of cold water, then work it with the hands(which should be greased) until it develops a grain and becomes the color oftaffy candy. The whole question of the propagation of plants is discussed in The Nurserv-Book. 146 MANUAL OF GARDENING. li ®n\ Tree surgery includes the intelligent protection of all me-chanical injuries and cavities. Pruning requires a previous in-timate knowledge of the habits of growth of trees; surgery, onthe other hand, requires in addition a knowledge of the bestmethods for making cavities air-tight and preventing filling of cavities in trees has not been practiced sufficientlylong to warrant making a definite statement as to the per-manent success or failure of the operation; the work is still in an experimental stage. The car-ing for cavities in trees must beurged as the only means of pre-serving affected specimens, andthe preservation of many noblespecimens has been at least tem-porarily assured through theefforts of those practicing thiskind of work. 11 Successful operation de-pends on two important fac-tors: first, that all decayedparts of the cavity be wholly removed and the exposed sur-face thoroughly washed with an antiseptic; second, that thecavity, when filled, must be air ti
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