The Pruning Manual 



By L. H. bailey 



Eighteenth Edition, Reriaed and Reset 



Illustrated, cloth, lamo, %2.oo 



"The Pruning Book," first published in 1898, is now 

 thoroughly revised and reset and appears in the eight- 

 eenth edition in the " Rural Manual " series with many 

 new illustrations. The experiments of the last fifteen 

 years have made changes in some of the conceptions of 

 pruning, and these are incorporated in the new treat- 

 ment. The author remarks that pruning is much more 

 than the cutting off of limbs and the shaping and train- 

 ing of plants. The practice really rests on a sound 

 knowledge of the way in which plants grow and how 

 they respond to treatment. A person is not a horticul- 

 turist until he understands these questions. Fertilizing, 

 spraying, tree surgery, the handUng of straight and 

 ornamental trees as well as fruit plants, are all taken up. 



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