PRUNING EVERGREEN HEDGES.
In the first year of an evergreen hedge, we wish it to grow as quickly as may be to the required height, therefore if the growth can anywhere be encouraged by cutting back, it is to bo done in early autumn. In the climate of New York, October is the proper time. When the the hedge is as high and as broad as desired, we then wish to repress further growth, and the main pruning is done so soon as the spring’s growth has been made, but while the shoots are still tender. Cutting in that state tends to check the growth. In localities similar in climate to New York, June is the month for this, which, in an established hedge, is the most important pruning, that performed in the fall being merely to correct and preserve the shape. In cutting all horizontal branches, half an inch or more in diameter, make a sloping cut' on the underside of the branch, so that ip looking down upon it> the wound is not seen.—American Agriculturist.
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Patea Mail, 21 June 1881, Page 4
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