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Of pruning luxuriant Plants, 

 Many of the luxuriant growing plants, shooting 

 perhaps too much to one side (as to the south), or 

 such as may be interfering with others less so, 

 should be pruned of their superfluous shoots ; do- 

 ing this in a cautious manner, however, and never 

 pruning much at a time. The plants should never 

 seem as if they had been pruned ; therefore, cut 

 cunningly, and, as it were, steal a branch or shoot 

 here and there, that the general outline of each may 

 appear natural. They should be no further pruned 

 than merely to keep every plant distinct ; mode- 

 rately thinning out such as have a tendency to grow^ 

 very thick or bushy. 



Of training the Climbers. 

 Continue to trim and to train the climbing plants, 

 as hinted at in April, and in June. Many of these 

 free-growing kinds will be shooting vigorously, and 

 should be gone over frequently, perhaps once a 

 week ; trimming them of their superfluous shoots, 

 and regularly dressing in those retained, that the 

 plants in the pit and border may not be too muck 

 shaded. 



