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branches and to repair damage by storm. Many shrubs also, 

 among which are lilacs, deutzias, spiraeas, and forsythias, do 

 well without much pruning. The plants most frequently 

 pruned are those grown for their fruit, and the object in 

 pruning is to force them to bear more and better crops by the 

 production of new wood upon which the fruits are borne. In 



Photograph by II. L. Bollister Land Co. 



FIG. 159. Cherry trees in bloom in an irrigated orchard 



temperate regions flowers seldom appear on wood that is more 

 than two years old. In the tropics flowers often appear on the 

 large branches or even the trunks of trees. In the hands of the 

 skilled gardener all the flowering shrubs may be induced to 

 bear the maximum number of flowers by judicious pruning. 



Pruning special crops. Some plants produce but one crop 

 of flowers and fruits on a Branch, no matter how long it may 

 remain on the plant after fruiting, and such branches are as 



