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Landscape Gardening 



PRUNING HEDGES 



As in pruning specimen shrubs, continual shearing at 

 the ends will cause a more or less close, defective, and 

 unhealthy growth, and here and there over the hedge weak 

 branches should be removed at considerable distance toward 



Fig. 48. Fig. 47. 



Figs. 48, 49. — Correct Form of H:dg5s. 

 Fig. 50. — Incorrect Form of Hedge. 



Fig. 50. 



Fig. 51. — Where Cut should be JSIad? in Pruning. 



the inside, which, as shown in Fig. 51, will result in new 

 shoots from near the centre of growth and thus the vigor of 

 the plant will be renewed. A hedge pruned in this way 

 may not present quite so solid an outline, but it has a more 

 graceful appearance, and will keep in a healthy condition 

 much longer than when pruned only at the ends of the 

 branches. 



Fig. 156 shows an unpruned hedge of natural growth, 

 while Fig. 155 shows a closely pruned hedge. 



