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In the proper maintenance of a shrub border the crowding and deadwood should be removed each year. It often becomes necessary totransplant to other locations and to rearrange some plants where theyare becoming too thick in the border plantation, in order to give theremainder of the plants an opportunity to develop normally. Weoften see shrub plantations which are "leggy." This can be overcomeby a proper pruning each year, consisting of the removal, to a height oftwelve or fifteen inches above the ground, of at least one-fourth of theold wood (See Plate No. V). This will encourage new growth fromthe base of the shrub and, where refined mass effects are desired, thismethod of pruning will eliminate much of the broken and unkept ap-pearance of many plantations. There are instances in which the ex-tremely old and unkept effect is more to be desired, and this processof pruning cannot be applied. |
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