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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



The pruning of shrubs is often perplexing- 

 to the amateur, owing to the different 

 flowering habits, some flowering on wood 

 of the current year's growth, and some on 

 that of the previous year, of which latter 

 the Sweet Syringa is an example. Fig, 191 2 

 shows one of them, the top part of which 

 was pruned in May, just before its flowering 



season, and, as a result, the whole top part 

 of young growth is without flowers, while the 

 old wood is laden down with beauty. The 

 photograph was taken on June 30th. Had 

 the pruning been deferred until about this 

 date the whole bush would have been a 

 thing of beauty, and the July growth would 

 have been prepared for blooming in 1901. 



Fig. 1913. A View in the Cherry Experimental Plot. 



