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GARDEJ^ING FOR PLEASURE. 



posed they may be injured if then pruned. Again, they 

 must not be pruned late in the spring, else the sap 

 oozing from the cuts may bleed them to death. Let me 

 say that both these notions are utter nonsense. The 



Fig. 75. — VIBW OF VINEYARD. 



pruning of any tree or vine in the coldest weather cannot 

 possibly injure it, and the " bleeding " or running of the 

 sap after any ordinary pruning can no more hurt the 



