A TOWN RESIDENCE. 



^\\ORT HOPE with its diversity 

 ^^ of hill and dale, its meandering 

 stream and its inclining streets 

 with their wealth of shade 

 trees on either side, has many fine resi- 

 dences and grounds. One of the most 

 attractive of these, and the most ob- 

 served, perhaps, because situated on 

 the main street of the town, and only 

 three minutes' walk from the central 

 business portion, is the residence of H. 

 H. Burnham, Esq., the President of the 

 Port Hope Horticultural Society. 



Because so situated, the grounds, 

 though by no means contracted, are not 

 so extensive as they would have been 

 had they been more suburban, but the 

 best has been made of every yard of 

 space. In fact, Mrs. Burnham, to 

 whose fine taste, artistic skill, assidu- 



ous attention, and passionate love of 

 flowers the grounds and house surround- 

 ings owe their beauty, has success- 

 fully solved the problem of garden 

 decoration. By a well planned arrange- 

 ment of walks, terraces, lawn space, 

 parterres, and statuary — here a group of 

 cacti, there a mass of bloom, here a 

 creeper, there a climber, here wild 

 bushes and a bank of ferns, there well 

 trimmed shrubs, here a basket, there a 

 vase, and taste and beauty everywhere — 

 this villa attracts the attention and de- 

 lights the eye of every passer-by. Seen 

 by hundreds every day it no doubt 

 exerts a silent influence in the interests 

 of horticulture, which it would be hard 

 to over-estimate. 



A. Purs low, Port Hope. 



PRINCIPLES OF PRUNING SHRUBS 



AS FORMULATED BY MR. CHARLES BALTET. 



i. — Prune when dormant plants of 

 those species which flower during the 

 growing season on the young, herbaceous 

 shoots. This is Winter Pruning, or Dry 

 Pruning 



2. — Prune in full growth, as soon as 

 the flowering period ends, the plants of 

 those species which, when the sap starts, 

 expand their flowers on the branches of 

 the year or older ones. This is Summer 

 Pruning, or Green Pruning. 



In both cases the desired end is that 

 the floral elements shall come well con- 

 stituted at the blooming epoch Sum- 

 mer pinching or shortening strengthens, 

 or causes to branch, the long shoots 

 which should flower in winter or the fol- 

 lowing spring, and thus increase the 

 show of flowers. 



Pruning is long when more wood is 

 left on the plant, short when more is cut 

 away, combined if the two operations are 

 applied at the time on the same shrub, 

 a system preferable to alternating. 



Without rules to follow, long pruning 

 or the absence of pruning should be pre- 

 ferable to exaggerated mutilations. Every- 

 where and always the trimming of trees 

 and shrubs is recommended by thinning 

 the branches that grow too dense, their 

 rejuvenation by the suppression of old, 

 sterile, wornout stems, and replacing 

 them with vigorous shoots, and, finally, 

 the cares of neatness, clearing away scaly 

 or mossy bark, the suppression of dead 

 wood, broken pieces, suckers and the 

 withered remains of flowers. 



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