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Pruning the Boxelder 



THE boxelder when used as a lawn or a street 

 tree must be considered as the exception to 

 the rule that a shade tree should never be pruned 

 beyond cutting out dead wood or an occasional 

 troublesome branch. The eccentric habits of this 

 tree, its crooked trunk, its low branches and its ten- 

 dency to sap sprouts are not the best recommenda- 

 tions for street or lawn planting. Nevertheless, on 

 the prairies, where we do not have a very extended 

 choice, its hardiness and rapid growth make the 

 boxelder a very desirable tree, and it is here that the 

 pruning knife will need to be used with caution to 

 correct its waywardness and to shape it properly. 

 There are numerous examples in many northwestern 

 towns where these trees bear mute evidence to the 

 strenuous endeavors, on the part of the owners, to 

 trim them so as to conform with their recollection of 

 eastern shade trees, little aware of the all important 

 fact that they were dealing with an altogether dif- 

 ferent kind of tree. 



When properly pruned the boxelder is a tolerable 

 street tree, not without a certain beauty in its youth; 

 but when neglected, or trimmed without due regard 

 to its natural habit of growth, it can become 

 an eyesore and a positive menace in the street, as 

 the large, poorly supported branches very frequently 

 break off in a high wind. To make the most of a 

 boxelder it must be taken into hand when young. 



The first serious drawback to be overcome are the 

 low branches. Remove all the branches or side 

 shoots from the trunk up to at least six feet from the 

 ground, and attend to this while the tree is young so 

 as to avoid large wounds. The natural bends or 

 crookedness of the trunk cannot be improved. 

 • The most harmful and at the same time the most 

 difficult defect to combat is the persistent tendency 

 of the boxelder to form crotches. When two 

 branches of equal size grow in opposite direction 

 from the same point on a tree they naturally tend 

 to pull apart and it takes much tougher wood than 

 that of a boxelder to prevent such limbs from split- 

 ting. Most trees have a well-defined leader or 

 central trunk and do not have this structural 

 weakness, but as soon as the trunk of a boxelder 

 begins to branch it runs into three or four branches, 

 all of which tend to develop equally. Though the 

 tree cannot be forced to carry a leader up through 

 its branches, endeavor to so prune that one or, at 

 most, two branches will forge ahead of the others 

 and virtually take the place of a leader even though 

 it is, as it always will be, at an angle to the trunk. 

 Thus, where a trunk gives up its own identity and 

 divides into two equal branches, one should be 

 removed and a bud or twig, that is already growing 

 in the direction in which the severed limb pointed 

 some inches six above the cut, should be encouraged 

 to develop into a principal branch. Thus will the 

 worst crotch of any tree be avoided. Furthermore, 



Incorrect pruning. One of these limes snould 

 have been removed when the tree was young 



