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Show Preserve Natural Beauty of Home Grounds Is Urged All over the state the beauty of hundreds of homes has been marred toy the improper pruning or otherwise other-wise maltreatment of the trees and shrubs that belong to its grounds, observes J- C- Hogenson, of the Utah State extension service at Logan. In' almost every community commun-ity you can see these mistreated trees standing as silent ghosts where axes have been used to cut off most of the top, leaving each limb just a stump two or three feet long. Such a tree will never become a thing of beauty again. It will always al-ways be a sore spot and will detract de-tract very much from the natural beauty of the home grounds. Again we see in almost every community, trees and shrubs that have been given a "dutch cut." That is, the tops have been cut off square, thus leaving a flat top. A tree or shrub thus topped has lost its beauty and usefulness and soon becomes just a "crow's nest" and can just as well be removed entirely- Trees and shrubs should be allowed al-lowed to grow into their natural form and shape to be beautiful. We cannot make a spreading tree out of a tree which naturally grows straight up; neither can we make a spreading tree grow up- It is out of harmony with nature if we attempt at-tempt to do so. Prune trees to make them look natural, advises Mr. Hogenson. If a limb is out of symmetry, or if the limbs are too thick or too many on one side, thin them out by cutting cut-ting off the entire limb smoothly right down to the trunk of the tree and parallel with it. This will make the tree symmetrical and it will continue to be a thing of beauty and increase in beauty as the year3 go by. o |