. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. efer to boththe length of the stub and the smoothness ofthe wound. The length of stub has been dis-cussed (Figs. 84-87). If the danger to wood wounds arises mostlyfrom the absorption of moisture and the entranceof germs from the atmosphere, then it must fol-low that a wound which is smooth and solid isbetter than one which is haggled or can conceive, too, that the progress of the cal-lus would be greatly obstructed% fJI by notches and splinters. Most of my readers—assumingthat
. The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. efer to boththe length of the stub and the smoothness ofthe wound. The length of stub has been dis-cussed (Figs. 84-87). If the danger to wood wounds arises mostlyfrom the absorption of moisture and the entranceof germs from the atmosphere, then it must fol-low that a wound which is smooth and solid isbetter than one which is haggled or can conceive, too, that the progress of the cal-lus would be greatly obstructed% fJI by notches and splinters. Most of my readers—assumingthat I shall have such—need noexplanation of Fig. 93. The dis-, aster would have been pre-vented if the operator had cutthe limb as suggested in A cut is first made as at a,sawing the limb half in two, and then the cut ismade at &. The stub is then sawn off close, asshown in Fig. 87. Every pains should be takento prevent the splitting of the wound or thetearing away of the bark, for ragged woundsseldom heal without becoming seriously this is not the proper place for the. MAKING THE WOUND 115 discussion of pruning tools (see Chap. V.), it maynevertheless be said that for the severing of largelimbs no tool leaves a better wound than a sharpsaw. If the wound is not torn or split by the
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