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Spring-blooming plants should be pruned within a week after theblossoms fall to encourage a summer growth of budded wood whichwill be well ripened by winter. Summer-blooming plants may be pruned either in the late summeror just before spring growth begins, to force a new spring growthupon which summer flowers appear. Late summer pruning is neveradvisable. Some shrubs, such as lilacs, flowering dogwoods, andrhododendrons should not be pruned except to remove dead anddiseased branches, or branches that interfere with the developmentof the plants. Deciduous shrubs of which the wood has become in-curably affected with scale may, however, be revivified by beingcut down to the ground. In the case of plants that form ornamentalfruit the branches should not be cut back far, nor the pruning doneafter the fruit buds have formed. |
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