Abstract
OWNERS of gardens, large and small, will find this book very useful, for many people fail to get the best results from their shrubs and trees owing to their indifferent knowledge of pruning. All ornamental shrubs and trees do not need annual pruning; some give better results without it, others require an annual light thinning out of the older wood, and some respond most satisfactorily when the flowering branches are cut back each year after the flowers are over and entirely new wood is relied upon for future flowers. Moreover, some shrubs and trees can be pruned when they are dormant in late autumn or winter, but if the same treatment were given to others the flowering wood for the following season would be cut out; that is why the autumnal clean up of gardens should not be made the time for the annual pruning of shrubs and trees.
Ornamental Shrubs and Trees: their Selection and Pruning
By Arthur J. Sweet. Edited by Walter P. Wright. Pp. xiii + 64. (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1935.) 5s. net.
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Ornamental Shrubs and Trees: their Selection and Pruning. Nature 136, 701 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136701b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136701b0