PRUNING SHADE TREES 
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with low-hanging branches are far less effective than those 
which show clean trunks to the proper height. The real 
beauty of a tree-lined thoroughfare is lost if the branches 
are so low as to shut off the vista of stately trunks and 
graceful foliage. 
All wood which is either dead or dying should be 
removed promptly. A tree that carries a heavy burden 
of dead limbs loses vigor of growth, and has a ragged and 
irregular development. Imperfect limbs, also, should be 
removed. 
If a tree has not had the early advantages of pruning 
during its years of development, even belated pruning 
may be made to play an important part in giving it new 
vigor and added beauty. Such trees are apt to have 
branches which cross or interfere with one another. In 
cases of this kind, removal of the branches that can best be 
spared will strengthen and improve the others. On a 
