. Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, hardy plants and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Trees; Ornamental shrubs; Flowers; Fruit. Pruning of Flowering Shrubs. Deutzia scabra—Unpruned. In the winter season much of the pruning of flowering shrubs is performed, and usually the operation takes with it all the flower buds that should clothe the plant with a mass of bloom during the spring and early summer. This is because gardener
. Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, hardy plants and fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Trees; Ornamental shrubs; Flowers; Fruit. Pruning of Flowering Shrubs. Deutzia scabra—Unpruned. In the winter season much of the pruning of flowering shrubs is performed, and usually the operation takes with it all the flower buds that should clothe the plant with a mass of bloom during the spring and early summer. This is because gardeners do not not consider the flowering habits of the various shrubs with which they have to deal. To prune away, in winter, the young wood from a Weigela, Deutzia, Mock Orange, Lilac, or Bush Honey- suckle, takes with it all the bloom for the following spring. This is usually the case, how- ever, when indiscriminate pruning is practiced. There are very few shrubs that may be severely cut in winter. The Hardy Hydrangea, Althaea, and some smaller shrubs like the Hypericum, form their flower buds on the young growth made in the summer of the same year they bloom, but nearly all other shrubs make their flower buds on the young growth made the season previous to their expanding. The proper S}'stem of pruning is one that will induce an abundance of young wood, ind this can only be accomplished by the trimming out of all two year old growth,—that which has already flowered,—cutting out the old shoots close to the ground, so that the new growth will push out from the root of the plant. If the bush make too strong and rank a growth, a moderate amount of pruning in winter will not lessen the bloom to any extent, especially as the extreme ends of the young wood do not flower. Summer pruning of flower shrubs is practiced by some gardeners with success,—after the plants have done blooming,—but in this case it must be done with great care, as the cutting away of wood when in full leaf
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