Acknowledgments
Improving on Nature
Chapter 1: Why Prune?
Promoting Health and Vigor
Keeping Up Appearances
Enhancing Natural Form
Improving Flowering and Fruiting
Controlling Size
Guiding Growth
Mending Damage
Eliminating Hazards
Chapter 2: When to Prune
Chapter 3: Tools and Equipment
Pruners and Loppers
Saws
Hedge Shears, Clippers, and Knives
Chapter 4: Pruning Practices Right and Wrong
Where to Cut and Why
Pinching
Unkind Cuts
Shearing
Heading Back (Lateral Pruning)
Thinning
Limbing Up
Root Pruning
Chapter 5: Pruning Deciduous Shade Trees
Planting Trees. Training Shade TreesMaintaining Shade Trees
Pruning Older Shade Trees
Chapter 6: Pruning Flowering Trees and Ornamental Shrubs
Flowering Trees
Deciduous Ornamental Shrubs
Roses
Chapter 7: Pruning Evergreens
Narrow-Leaf Evergreens
Broadleaf Evergreens
Woody Herbs
Chapter 8: Pruning Hedges
Shaping Hedges
Types of Hedges
Chapter 9: Artistic Pruning
Topiary
Espalier
Cordon
Coppicing and Pollarding
Chapter 10: Pruning Woody Vines and Ground Covers
Woody Vines
Clematis
Woody Ground Covers
Chapter 11: Pruning Fruit Trees
Timing
Pruning Styles
Thinning Fruit
Solving Problems. Tips for Specific FruitsChapter 12: Pruning Bush Fruits, Brambles, and Grapes
Grapes
Blueberries and Other Bush Fruits
Raspberries and Other Brambles
Chapter 13: Pruning Nut Trees
Almonds
Chestnuts
Filberts
Pecans and Hickories
Walnuts and Butternuts
Plant-by-Plant Pruning Guide for Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Vines
Index
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