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Maple Chestnut Hazel 



Lime Birch Walnut 



Lilac Rose 



The following rarely or never form true suckers : 



Oak Hornbeam Sycamore 



Tree Willows Beech Ash 



Norway Maple 



It is hardly necessary to point out that the whole of 

 the complex art of pruning illustrates what has been said 

 above. The object of the pruner's art is to increase the 

 branching in places where the competition of the shoots 

 which he removes would, did he allow the latter to remain, 

 cause more or less complete starvation of particular buds. 

 It is true that he aims especially at stimulating fruit-spurs 

 or flowering-shoots — i.e. dwarf-shoots — but, incidentally, 

 he comes into contact with all the phenomena above 

 described. Since pruning trenches on the subject of 

 wounds and their consequences, a theme outside the scope 

 of this book, I cannot enter further into the subject here. 



