TREES SUITABLE FOR HEDGEROW AND FIELD PLANTING. 



Early and judicious pruning is necessary to the trees in 

 question : for it is well known that if branches are allowed 

 to ramify at will, greater injury to the underlying herbage 

 must be committed than where timely pruning and shortening 

 of all straggling branches has been attended to. 



Early summer pruning, say, in the month of June, is to 

 be recommended, as at that time, owing to the active circu- 

 lation of the sap, the wounds heal up much quicker than 

 when the operation is performed at any other season of the 

 year. The pruning should be performed by a person who 

 is thoroughly conversant with the work, haphazard cutting 

 and hewing, by an inexperienced hand, and at any season, 

 being most injurious. If the young trees have been well 

 cared for whilst in the nursery border, little or no attention 

 will afterwards be required at least for a number of years. 



The main object in pruning both hedgerow and field trees 

 is to develop a valuable main stem which is only to diverge 

 into branches at a given height from the ground, and to 

 prevent the overgrowth of straggling branches farther up, 

 so as to maintain a symmetrical and rather fastigiate head. 



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