94 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



of shrubs and trees follow a similar principle, in that the flower 

 buds for the following year are developed on the wood made 

 this season. Others, flowering later in the year, do so on the 

 current season's wood. 



Bailey says: "The methods of pruning to produce a given 

 form of bush are the same in either case; but if it is desired to 

 head in and yet not sacrifice the bloom, the early flowering 

 shrubs should be cut back just after blooming." M. Baltet, a 

 well known French writer and experimenter, once made up a 

 set of tables relative to the pruning of trees and shrubs, and we 

 venture to give them here for general memory-refreshment. 



Small Trees and Flowering Shrubs 

 (Prune in winter when plants are dormant) 



