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as a rule, from seven to nine leaflets, whereas the budded stock has 

 usually but five. 



Hedges and plants trained to a formal shape need to be cut 

 several times during the season rather than just once in spring. 

 A spring pruning stimulates them into sending up a lot of little 

 shoots which leave the plant with a more or less ragged appearance 

 for the summer, and these shoots need to be cut back two or three 

 times during the season, depending upon the rapidity of growth. 



The pruning of fruit trees is a science about which it is dan- 

 gerous to generalize. Each tree, bush, and vine needs careful, 

 individual treatment, because the fruit is not borne the same way 

 on all of them, and for a thorough and reliable treatise on the sub- 

 ject of pruning fruit trees there is no better authority than Mr. 

 Liberty Hyde Bailey's "Pruning Book.'' The matter is here 

 taken up in all its branches, and in a sufficiently popular way to 

 be understandable by the layman who knows nothing about 

 botany. 



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