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PRUNING OF SHRUBS 

 "The majority of home owners are not 

 much concerned about selecting the right 

 spots for planting, choosing the right kind 

 of shrubs, getting the best stock and plant- 

 ing it in a careful manner," says Prof. Alan 

 F. Arnold of the New York State College 

 of Forestry at Syracuse University. "After 

 the shrubs are in the ground, however, their 

 owners exhibit a painful amount of solici- 

 tude for them and this is expressed par- 

 ticularly in the practice of shearing them 

 back to a flat top every year giving them 

 a 'haircut.' This is a most unfortunate 

 practice horticulturally and aesthetically. 

 Many people who vigorously condemn the 

 telephone companies for lopping off sec- 

 tions of nice trees, perform the same opera- 

 tion on their own shrubs and think they 

 have done well. 



"The practice of cutting off the tops of 

 shrubs has many disadvantages. In the 

 first place, it renders them ugly ; the value 

 of a shrub largely lies in its beauty of 

 outline, the grace of its branches and the 

 delicacy of its twigs, and these are lost 

 if it is given a top like a table instead of 

 like a growing plant. Next, the shearing 

 destroys the individuality of the plants; 

 there is little use in having a variety of 

 shrubs, or the variety that there may be in 

 different members of the same species, if 

 they are to be reduced to sameness once 

 a year by a pair of shears. Again, the plant 

 is apt to be robbed of the best part of its 

 bloom; the majority of our ornamental 

 shrubs bloom on branches which have 

 grown the year before, and if these are 

 largely cut off in late winter or early spring, 

 the possibility of flowers is cut off with 

 them. 



"It is difficult, if not impossible, to make 

 rules for pruning shrubs, if one had to 

 make a rule, however, a vastly better one^ 

 than that which calls for an annual 'Hair- 

 cut.' would be 'Don't do any pruning at 

 all.' Some use of the shears is, however, 

 often desirable. It may be to keep within 

 bounds a shrub which is getting too hjgh, 

 or encroaching on a walk, or a flower bor- 

 der ; or to give a better appearance to some 

 of the shrubs whose habits or growth are 

 not of the best; or, simply to remove 

 dead branches. Pruning is also often re- 

 sorted to for finer and larger flowers. Ill 

 the case of a few shrubs, notably lilacs, 

 a little cutting is a good thing for the 

 bloom ; if it is a case of severe pruning 

 such as is given to roses the shrubs had 

 better be grown in some special spot, not 

 in the ordinary shrubbery bed where gen- 

 eral all round attractiveness of the plants 

 is wanted. 



"The sort of pruning to do and the time 

 to do it depend on the kind of shrub and 

 what is expected of it. Occasional bits of 

 pruning, such as the reinoval of some dead 

 wood or an obstructing branch, can be done 

 almost any time. Pruning to improve the 



