The Pruning Manual 
By L. H. BAILEY 
Eighteenth Edition, Revised and Reset 
Lllustrated, cloth, 12mo, $2.00 
“The Pruning Book,” first published in 1898, is now 
thoroughly revised and reset and appears in the eight- 
eenth edition in the ‘ Rural Manual” series with many 
new illustrations. The experiments of the last fifteen 
‘years have made changes in some of the conceptions of 
pruning, and these are incorporated in the new treat- 
ment. The author remarks that pruning is much more 
than the cutting off of limbs and the shaping and train- 
ing of plants. The practice really rests on a sound 
knowledge of the way in which plants grow and how 
they respond to treatment. A person is not a horticul- 
turist until he understands these questions. Fertilizing, 
spraying, tree surgery, the handling of straight and 
ornamental trees as well as fruit plants, are all taken up. 
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 
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