. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. PRUNING 191 Name How to Prune â Whm Indian Currant , Japanese Quinces Ju
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. PRUNING 191 Name How to Prune â Whm Indian Currant , Japanese Quinces July Kerria japonica . KOELREUTERIA PANICULATA Require only that old wood shall be removed. July LABURNini Vin-GARE Shorten any straggling shoots after flow- July X'IGUSTRUMS ering. Lilac Prune out old wood if specimen flowers are preferred, also prune out all the sprouts from the base. July. Magnolias Require only that old wood shall be re- nloved. Tar over all scars. July. Mahonia aquifolu Require only that old wood shall be removed. July. Matrimony Vine Mountain Laurel Requires only that old wood should be re- moved. Ne VIUSA ALABAMENSIS July MoUTAN Pa VIA (See Dwarf ChestnuO July. Pruning Raspberry canes Peach Fear Pearl Bush Philadelfhus Plum Privet (See Hedges) Prunus Double flowering Almond, Dwf. dbl. flowering Almond P. tomentosa P. triloba Quinces Raspberries, Black The Peach bears on shoots of previous year. The tree must, therefore, never be headed back; whole branches should be removed when pruning. Heading in does cause pro- duction of new wood but method advised is better. Low heads, keeping them open if possible. Keep all branches free from water sprouts. Moderate pruning to remove old branches and new ones if tree becomes overloaded. Head very low. Cut back ends of branches. Fruit borne on wood of current season. Bear on wood which grew previous year. Remove all shoots except 6-8 in Spring. Head back all long shoots in Summer
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