The principles of fruit-growing . The very best tool for thepurpose, however, is that shown in Fig. 44, which is asteel plate with sharp,ground edges, fas-tened securely to abent shank. Thistool can be had of hardware dealers, to ^.^ ^^ Scraper for cleaning and whom it is known repairing trees. as a box-scraper. Aside from removing the loose bark from thetrunks of trees, this tool is very useful in cuttingout and removing all diseased spots upon the bodiesor in the crotches. The wounds resulting from thebarking of trees may be trimmed down to freshtissue by such a tool, and all spots injured b
The principles of fruit-growing . The very best tool for thepurpose, however, is that shown in Fig. 44, which is asteel plate with sharp,ground edges, fas-tened securely to abent shank. Thistool can be had of hardware dealers, to ^.^ ^^ Scraper for cleaning and whom it is known repairing trees. as a box-scraper. Aside from removing the loose bark from thetrunks of trees, this tool is very useful in cuttingout and removing all diseased spots upon the bodiesor in the crotches. The wounds resulting from thebarking of trees may be trimmed down to freshtissue by such a tool, and all spots injured bybark borers, patches of pear-blight (or body-blight),and the like, may be cut away, and the woundedsurfaces are thereafter covered with Bordeaux mix-ture or paint. In the scraping of trees, it is al-ways advisable to take away every particle ofwounded and diseased tissue, unless it extends deepinto the wood. When the object is to simply takeaway the rough and loose bark, the tree should not 288 The Principles of Fig. 45. A young trunk girdledby a label Avire. be scraped down to the qnick ;that is, only the loose ex-terior portion should be removed. Girdled trees, and gird-ling.—Trees which are girdledshould have the injured partspared down to live tissue andthe wounded surface thencovered with an antisepticdressing. It is also advis-able to bind up the girdlewith some material likegrafting-wax, which willkeep the wood moist andthereby allow the ascentof the sap ; for the saprises in the tree throughthe young, soft wood, and notbetween the wood and the bark is formed over thewound by the sap which is re-distributed through the tree afterit has been elaborated in theleaves ; that is, the reparativetissue is formed by elaboratedsap which is on its downwardcourse. If the woody tissueis kept soft and fresh, the treemay continue to live for years,but there will be a deposition Bepairing Girdled Trees. 289 of woody matter above the girdle, whilst the por-ti
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