care mu^ be used that they do not partake of the 

 food intended for the girdlers. 

 ^ Shrubs that have been girdled mu^ be cut 

 down to ju^ below the girdle as none can survive, 

 indeed none can live above the damaged part. 

 Therefore the only thing to do is to remove the 

 entire growth above. Frequently a shrub will be 

 greatly benefited by this compulsory cutting down, 

 particularly if it is cluttered with old and dead 

 wood, and if you will provide a broad saucer 

 around it, with lime and bone meal worked into 

 it, fir^ working in the lime, then in a week or so 

 the bone. If a girdled shrub be a valued, or valu- 

 able one, you need not despair, it will probably 

 be finer than before and in a year or so it should 

 reach its former proportions, that is if it is limed, 

 and fed, and watered and the soil in the saucer- 

 like depression kept cultivated. 



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