Saving Mutilated Trees

Fruit traes, hade fcreas, mul ornamontil shrnbs, are broken by tiíittlo un! other kinds ui livc gtook, and ;ilso 1 .y liigh viuda Tn niany cases tlio daihagt luay be repaipea by setting the brocen limbs or trunks, matohing the parta nir.:!y tqgether, and hen binding on mud mixed with cow dung to keep it froifl cractiu}í. A coBpespondent if the Oinoin&ati Oazetti says hehad averyniceMay clim-y tïoe in his yard. A hone got in and brokc tbc top offa littlo above the nrst liinb. Tlicn ;l :i splinter of wood and a little b;ak :it Olio sido. Hl! si t il iijkumI matohed the broken parto M 'weUfas he could, bandaged tlio fracturo, and ticd the trii' lo a M:iki-, spreading on grafting wnx ■ bic bui wm hrokfin. The grew as woll as evor. Somebody asked Miss Nilson for her opinión fogardrag giving vom;ui tlic b;illot, and hor ruply was, "Givo me thc bailad." Forfy-six rnrlnads of zinc werf shippi ! from Plattevillp, AYis., during January i imd Fébniáry.