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Many shrubs possess a greater or less value for their flowering habits. The following are a series of memorandums explanatory of thedrawings shown on Plate No. V, illustrating various methods ofpruning trees and shrubs. A A large, overgrown, and "leggy" shrub with some new long shoots growing fromthe base of the plant. In such overgrown plants as these all of the wood whichproduces flowers is in the top branches at the ends of the old wood and the shrubpresents a very bare effect at its base.A-l The same shrub as shown under "A", but pruned for the purpose of allowingnew shoots to develop from the base of the shrub and to permit a new top at anormal height, thus renovating the entire shrub during a period of two or threeyears. |
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