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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1911 



Planet Jr. 



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No.25 | Planet Jr Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, Double- 

 Wheel Hoe, Cultivator and Plow opens the furrow, sows seed 

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 Also has perfect cultivating attachments. 



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How to Prune a Shrub 



WHILE the work of pruning a shrub is simple, 

 some knowledge of the nature of the shrub 

 is necessary in order to do the work intelligently. 

 Specimen shrubs with few exceptions should carry 

 their foliage down to the ground and present a 

 full, round, almost "corpulent" appearance. One 

 sees so many shrubs trimmed to a few bare stems 

 sparsely foliated that one might conclude that the 



Bad pruning. This lilac should havs been headed 

 back to induce bushiness 



fashion in shrubs were something on the order of a 

 feather duster. Women are sometimes to blame 

 for this. A woman gets the notion that her shrub 

 needs trimming, a stray "Jack of all trades" hap- 

 pens along, she puts him to work with directions 

 to clean the shrubs, and the result will be anything 

 but what it should be. 



The rule for pruning is simple. If a shrub gets 

 too lanky, cut it back somewhat so that it will 

 bush out. If it grows too dense cut out some of 

 the older stems, but do it so that the shrub main- 



Good pruning. 



This shrub presents a full, round 

 mass of greenery 



tains its balance. Root sprouts at a distance 

 from the shrub are never to be tolerated and are 

 not so apt to spring up where the normal growth 

 of a shrub is not unduly interfered with. 



The time of pruning of course differs. The 

 spring-bloomers should be pruned immediately 

 after they have flowered, the fall-bloomers in 

 early spring before growth starts. 



North Dakota. C. L. Meller. 



