PRUNING MADE PLAIN 



gardeners agree that fruit trees are all the better for 

 judicious and careful pruning. It seems foolish to lay 

 down hard and fast rules for observance in every garden ; 

 plants are living things, and there is no good reason for 

 insisting that plants in a garden in Northumberland need 

 the same treatment as those in a garden in Cornwall, 

 any more than there is sense in believing that what is 

 good for an Englishman at home is good also for him 

 in tropical Africa. The question of local conditions, of 

 soil, and climate, is one of much importance, and their 

 influence proscribes the framing of dogmatic teaching. 



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