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the sun and air to reach all parts of the heads, and good, hard, ripened 

 wood is the result. Careful summer pruning rids the plants of a lot of 

 useless growth, to their great benefit, and it greatly lessens the work in the 

 spring when pruning proper has to be carried out. Nothing has then to 

 be done in the spring but to shorten the shoots, and it is astonishing how 

 much more easily this can be effected when there has been a careful revision 

 of the plants the previous year. 



I have always found that strong natural healthy growth, brought 

 about by good cultivation, is much more likely to carry fine blooms than 

 that coarse sappy growth caused by too much manure. 



