Believing that a few words on the above subject will be of interest to those who may have suffered from the depredations of mice in their young orchards during the past severe winter, I make the following communication, knowing, however, that my theory of saving trees injured by mice, or from other causes, is well understood, at the present time, by many experienced cultivators; yet the modus operandi, perhaps, may not be fully known by some of your readers whose young trees have been completely girdled by mice.

For the benefit of such persons, I will describe a plan adopted by me some years ago, for saving a girdled tree.

A friend, some time in April, expressed his regret at having lost the finest peach-tree in his garden; a tree of three inches in diameter, which had been girdled for a space of six inches near the ground. I informed him that there was a possibility of saving the tree; he furnished me with a small 1/2 inch chisel, a piece of coarse cloth, and a stout cord. I then proceeded to make three half-inch grooves in the tree, equidistant from each other, and running from two inches above the girdled part to two inches below.

These grooves in the tree were made perfectly smooth, and the bark above and below the girdle injured as little as possible. ' I then took a straight, thrifty shoot of the tree, split it through the centre, and shaved off each edge, so as to make it exactly fit the groove when of the right length, and fitted one into each of the grooves, using care to have the outer surface of the wood on the tree, and that on the piece inserted, to exactly match.

I now made a plaster of equal parts of cow manure and soil, spread it on the cloth, and then bound it round the tree with the cord; and, after banking the earth well up against it, left the rest to nature.

The result was a partial crop of fruit on the tree the same season, and a complete circulation of bark over the wounded part the year following. Other trees than the peach may be treated in the same way, and, when the job is nicely done, the sap will flow through the medium artificially supplied, until sufficient new organizable matter is pushed out from the sides to completely cover the wound.

Remedy For Girdled Fruit-Trees #1

"The sovereign'st thing on earth was parmaceti, for an inward bruise." I never knew a disease, from the itch to the cholera - from the meazles to the consumption, for which somebody could not prescribe a certain remedy. You may save the girdled tree, by following the prescription of Mr. Lumm, for a few years; but where the bark is eaten clean off, the trunk will decay, and leave a deformed, defective body. Better at once root it out, if you want a permanent tree, than attempt to patch a thing that is destined, under ordinary circumstances, to outlive both you and your family. I have tried all these nostrums with mice-bitten trees, when the girdling has been thorough, and know them, for all efficient purposes, to be a temporary benefit. If a strip of living bark is left, or only the outer skin be eaten off, binding up the tree with cloth, or the application of a salve, will restore it in time, as the sap, through even a hair's-breadth of continuous bark will do wonders; but, as a rule, cleanly girdled trees are not worth the trouble of nursing.