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Show PRUNING OF TREES PROPERLY Importance Not Fully Appreciated by Many Until One Observes Unsightly Docking. The Importance of properly pruning the trees on our streets and about the home is not fully appreciated until one observes the unsightly "dock lng" practiced by some of our well-meaning well-meaning citizens, says the Farmers' Guide. "As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined." This saying, familial to all, might be recast to read: "As the twigs are cut so the tree is inclined or given form." We mean tc say by this that intelligent pruining may mold the tree into almost anj desired form. Even the despised lombardy poplar which, by the way, Is a stately and beautiful tree when properly placed and cared for, can be so pruned as tc produce a pleasing effect If taken it time and pruned each year. The most common error is to neg lect the pruning until the tree has become ill-shaped, and then to attempt at-tempt by the drastic method of cutting cut-ting off many large limbs or the entire en-tire trunk to give the symmetry and beauty desired. Such methods seldom bring the desired results, and gener ally leave the tree so badly maimed and disfigured that it is removed, eith. N er by man or by the destroying fungi which enter the tree where large pruning wounds have been made. |