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 fruit blossoms and the flowering shrubs. The branch to be bent is held in the palms of one's hands like this:

Another method is to tie down the branch for twelve hours, or attach weights to branches as shown on the opposite page.

Branches may be bent until they break if the broken part comes beneath the surface of the water, but the bark must not be injured on any part visible above the water. Branches can also be bent over the knee.

The last resort with an obstinate branch is to use wedges, which is seldom done except [86]