. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. 84 General Care of Trees consumption to nutrition and light supply. On the contrary, by anticipating this natural process through timely artificial pruning and trimming, still further advantage can be secured; for, by interfering early and limiting the competition, the vitality of the remaining branches is increased, so that pruning acts very much Hke soil im])rovement. The common practice in pruning is to cut out the dead wood; the proper practice is to prune in time so as to avoid
. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. 84 General Care of Trees consumption to nutrition and light supply. On the contrary, by anticipating this natural process through timely artificial pruning and trimming, still further advantage can be secured; for, by interfering early and limiting the competition, the vitality of the remaining branches is increased, so that pruning acts very much Hke soil im])rovement. The common practice in pruning is to cut out the dead wood; the proper practice is to prune in time so as to avoid as much as possible the making of dead wood. By judicious and systematic trimming (heading in), both the form and the health of the trees are improved, and in fruit trees even the fruit-bearing can be influenced, — but this is an art by itself. Such trim- ming should be done annually or biennially, when only small Fig. 13. — Hedge shears for changes at a time are made, the pruning. ° ' branchlets cut are small, and the tree economy is only slightly disturbed. The branch system being kept shortened, the roots are much more likely to suffice in supplying the needed water even in drouthy seasons, while enough dormant buds will develop to fill out the crown as much as is needful. Thus by timely and systematic attention we can produce just such forms and conditions in a tree as we desire, instead of leaving it to the accident of natural development. Indeed, in such light-needing species as the Sycamore or Silver Maple, which are apt to thin out in the interior of their crown, the crown may be considerably improved and the foliage cover thickened by such cutting back of branches and consequent formation of new branchlets, which till out the otherwise thin crown. Another advantage of cutting "or heading back" the annual shoots in rapid growing. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - co
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