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reason, put the plant in a shady place out of 

 the wind and cover the roots with enough earth 

 to prevent their drying out. Thus heeled in a 

 thing may lay for days without suffering. 



Pruning 



Only generalities may be given here, for this 

 is a subject which grows somewhat compli- 

 cated as one goes into its special phases; hence 

 it requires special treatment. Probably the one 

 thing which needs saying most emphatically 

 and reiterating again and again with regard to 

 pruning is : — do not prune at all unless you know 

 exactly why you are doing it and exactly how 

 to do it for that particular purpose. Nature 

 herself will attend to a good bit of this work and 

 with far better effect than man, misguided. 



Very little pruning should ever be necessary 

 in the case of ordinary trees and shrubs. Leave 

 them to grow in their own way, removing only 

 dead or injured wood in the spring, when failure 

 to make leaf growth reveals this to you; thus 

 the true character and beauty of each kind of 

 tree or shrub will develop unhampered. Rub off 

 the little adventitious buds which appear on 

 the trunks of trees as soon as they appear, 

 never letting sprouts grow either along a trunk 



