HOW TO TREAT 



Even if one succeed in saving frozen plants, 

 it may be necessary to remove many of their 

 branches. The action of frost is peculiar. 

 One branch may be injured beyond any chance 

 of recovery, while another, in close proximity, 

 may be simply chilled. Look your plants over 

 carefully, as they show signs of recovery, and 

 remove all injured branches. This is necessary, 

 for a branch which shows but slight injury may 

 communicate its unhealthy condition to the 

 rest of the plant, after a little, thus infecting it 

 with the virus of a disease which means ulti- 

 mate death. Never hesitate to prune, when 

 you recognize the necessity for it, because you 

 think it will give you an unsymmetrical plant. 

 Better an ill-shaped one in a healthy condition 

 than a symmetrical specimen in which the 

 germs of disease are lurking. Lack of sym- 

 metry can be overcome by future training. 

 Health is the matter of chiefest importance, 

 first, last, and always. 



Often the entire top of a plant will have to 

 be cut away. When this happens, do not give 

 up the plant as lost, for by and by new growth 

 may be sent up from the roots. This is fre- 

 quently the case when the action of frost was 

 confined to the surface of the soil. The roots 



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