Why Dead Branches Should Be Removed

If'w.' tuk" a dt'nd and dry Mick, say ;iti indi or two tliick, soxk ii thorwighly wiih water, and exposé it (u the full hun uf' a warm rammer day, in a few houra it will be Found tlnit the moixture all n I ihe Hiick I a dry a cv. r. Takc a liwi.g branoh of the game site, out it frotn it parent tr. e, exposé it ide hy sidfl with llie other, 'tnit though i: will it unoe bi'gin to slirink tliere vrill be Bi mo nioïsture lelt, fur -cv, ial iays t'i conre. TIn re is .-till gomo vital power lefl in the Irae, and vital p mrr resista evaporation 80 in the winter time, a Midden burft "f nonshipe will raiga (he steam trom a dead coiData k tiiat 111 1 bav been seáked fith ttíom, m I the .talk wiil M.011 f'i-el warm; while a ({ree 1 3 uocmlesi, .ir a branch of an evergreen i till 00 d liever, anJ eniits 110 steam. The vital powei 'k equal tii matntaimng the planas i m tcinpcratiirr, wIit.'vci' it may be, nd aimply throWi ff the water alter the vital power bas po mor.' oae For it. Nów ibe one wbo knows tliis, knowe si how tn manage a tree tliat has be n injured by frost, or by tratisplaMinc. IKnever allows B twi' or branoh thai is probably k11"1-' 'O dii'. nr is actually dead, to remain .-i the tree, lx cause it helpa (o kill the liviftft parts of the trees by eraporation. A ivini; plant does not lote much water by evaporatioo, bal 1 dead one does; and thus it is draining the tree of iisjuices tod tbrowing into tbo atnoapksre ' jual what the lifing „„,,,], M ]onf, M , remanís on So II he plant a tir, tt, ),s BeasoD, and has the remotest idea tliat the twigs or top shoots will be killed he does not wiiit f i r the event, but cuts tliem off at once. Thoug&odn of trees are .aved every yenr bj toe one who knows this muoh of botany, while bnndreds of thoutanda die every year ande the hands of' hese who think they can raisc pótatOCÜ ot ;row apple trees without botiiering their teade about this stuff."