How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in making attractive homes and beautiful cities . Maturative pruning. Thebest time to prune is directly after blooming or toward theend of the dormant period, March in New England; Janu-ary and February, south; are good months. It is betternot to have large cut surfaces exposed to drying winterwinds. They should be painted or covered with graftingwax. The worst time to prune is when the wounds bleedin spring or in the fall. Early flowering shrubs shouldbe pruned after blooming. TREESDead or dying branches should be removed
How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in making attractive homes and beautiful cities . Maturative pruning. Thebest time to prune is directly after blooming or toward theend of the dormant period, March in New England; Janu-ary and February, south; are good months. It is betternot to have large cut surfaces exposed to drying winterwinds. They should be painted or covered with graftingwax. The worst time to prune is when the wounds bleedin spring or in the fall. Early flowering shrubs shouldbe pruned after blooming. TREESDead or dying branches should be removed at anytime. Always cut back to living wood. Twining or cross- 84 HOW TO MAKE HOMB ing branches should be removed. The tops of fruit treesshould be kept open enough to allow fruit to color necessary to cut a branch from a tree, the cut shouldbe made as near the trunk as possible. A part of the cutshould be made from the underside to prevent the barksplitting down. If cut in this way the wound quicklyheals. If a stub is left the wound will not heal anddecay begins which soon extends into the trunk. A young. Hollow tree prepared for Cement FillingConnecting Chain above protecting against splitting AND CITY BEAUTIFUL 85 tree may be trained as it should grow and will need littlepruning when old. All suckers whether from the branchesor roots should be removed. Prune regularly and systema-tically every year. Trees not properly pruned when setand those that have been neglected require the most care-ful treatment and care. Where the trunk is divided,treatment is required not only to preserve the tree, but toprotect life and property. Any severe storm is likely tobreak down one side injuring everything that comes in itsway. One tree in breaking may destroy enough propertyto pay for fixing a dozen trees. Such trees may be madesafe by putting a steal bolt through the trunk just belowwhere they separate and by connecting two bolts ten to fif-teen feet above with a steel chain. The
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