OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



never bore any red berries but continued to 

 produce nothing but leaves, although I 

 knew well they were plenty old enough to 

 be laden with scarlet clusters. Finally, 

 still thinking of those expected masses of 

 red, I at last put them somewhere else, and 

 as they interfered with no view in their 

 new home, and were now compact and 

 symmetrical in shape, they were pruned no 

 longer. And lo! forthwith they bedecked 

 themselves with the long-looked-for bunches 

 of scarlet, and then it dawned upon me that 

 if one wants a shrub to bear flowers and 

 fruit it is wise not to prune off the only 

 twigs it can grow them on ! 



The habits of the different shrubs vary in 

 this matter. Some have flowers and fruit 

 on the wood made during the previous 

 year. Others on the wood made during 

 the same season. Each one must therefore 

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