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during the coming season, if closely cut back. Some, 

 like the Altheas and the Panicled Hydrangea, need this 

 every year to prevent them from growing unshapely. 



Bv discriminating between these two classes of shrubs, 

 and adapting the pruning to the peculiar habits of each, 

 then heeding the instructions on Summer Pruning given 

 in June, no one ought to find any difficulty in pruning 

 his shrubs satisfactorily. 



Climbers on buildings, arbors, etc., need but little, 

 and in fact as a rule no regular pruning. If they get 

 thin and straggling, then the free use of the knife will 

 wqjk good results in the way of closer growth. Those 

 on trellises and other x^laces of limited extent, can be 

 controlled to any desired degree by the use of the knife. 



Deciduous Hedges may be trimmed at this time. The 

 notes under April on trimming evergreen hedges are ap- 

 pliable in a large measure to these also. Honey Locust 

 and Osage Orange hedges may be formed of a good size 

 soonest by allowing the plants to grow untrimmed, until 

 they are an inch through at the ground, and then cut- 

 ting them down almost to the ground, somewhat as is 

 shown in figure 137. Such treatment causes a vigorous 

 new growth to start up, which will develop into a well 

 formed hedge very quickly. Such hedges in after years 

 must be trimmed annually the same as any other kinds 

 of hedges. 



MANURE. 



"Whether gardening for pleasure or profit, the ground 

 must not be cropped year after year, not even of grass on 

 the lawn, without returning some equivalent in the shape 

 of manure. Hauling in a year's supply of manure may 

 be done at any time during the winter. Every garden, 

 unless a very small one, should have its manure-heap in 

 some out-of-the-way, yet convenient, place. As to kinds, 

 well decomposed stable manure, if it can be procured. 



