88 EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 



In pruning shrubs, be careful to cut out the long 

 rambling shoots of the last summer's growth, which 

 disfigure their appearance. Cut away, also, 

 branches of shrubs which interlace each other, that 

 every shrub may stand clear arid well-defined. 

 Take away their suckers, and let each shrub be 

 kept to a single stem, as I have before observed. 



