. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. SUGGESTIONS FOR PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS. 415 plants of Rhus Cotinus stone dead by pruning them shortly before they were exposed to a hard winter. Broadly speaking, nearly all deciduous trees can be pruned with advantage in their young state, and hardly any conifers ; in the case of the latter they are best left quite alone, except for the removal of any superfluous leaders. There is, however, one marked exception in this class, and that is the various Retinosporas, which in this climate, at any ra
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. SUGGESTIONS FOR PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS. 415 plants of Rhus Cotinus stone dead by pruning them shortly before they were exposed to a hard winter. Broadly speaking, nearly all deciduous trees can be pruned with advantage in their young state, and hardly any conifers ; in the case of the latter they are best left quite alone, except for the removal of any superfluous leaders. There is, however, one marked exception in this class, and that is the various Retinosporas, which in this climate, at any rate, are apt to get very ragged and mangy if allowed to grow naturally, but when pruned they make handsome solid and vigorous pyramids. It is, of course, very difficult to give general directions as to pruning on paper, though it might be quite easy to say what should be done to this or that tree if it were before one. A general rule may, however, be laid down that all boughs which turn back and grow inwards or across the others, and still more all those which turn upwards and take a vertical direction, should be removed. Most trees, except the Beech, have a tendency to throw out a mass of small shoots from their stems, especiallv where the original boughs have been removed. These should always be taken away, as in a young tree they use up the sap which is wanted for the formation of a tine head, and in an old one they lessen the impressiveness of the trunk and weaken the contrast between grey bole and green branches. With regard to the PLANTING of trees, the soil in which they are to grow should whe never possible be thorou ghly t r e n c h e d and broken up; it is really astonishing to note the different rate of pro- g r e s s of two trees in all other respects similar, one of which has the ad- vantage of trenched ground and the other not. Of course where trees are planted as specimens on turf it is impossible to break' up the ground, but in that case the wider the hole in whi
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