Beginners are always slow to prune or cast away any thought or expression which may have cost labor.
Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line.
I thought it had been shot, but found it had been picked up in the prune orchard.
He had pitched his tent on the farthest outpost of my ranch in a little bunch of willows, weeds, and mustard--long since converted into a well-kept prune orchard.
In ten days, having given meanwhile two waterings of liquid manure, I prune the bushes back sharply.
After spreading out the roots as carefully as possible, I plant firmly and water thoroughly, but do not as yet prune off the long branches.
I never prune in the autumn, because winter always kills a bit of the top and cutting opens the tubular stem to the weather and induces decay.
Prune pulp or prune jelly may be given to children as well as to adults.
When babies are fed upon pasteurized, sterilized, or dried milk it is advisable to use orange or prune juice earlier than the seventh month.
Fruit: For children from six months on (earlier if physician approves) 1-2 tablespoons orange or prunejuice a day.
Mr. Street: I do not know of any who spray, cultivate and prune according to the best methods within about 100 miles.
Most growers properly prune and thin their trees and bushes, while many are beginning to spray.
Make the ground as rich as possible, plough deep, plant deep, set deep and prune carefully.
I will prune them just as I wish to make a beautiful double hedge between two cottages.
This brought out a very lively discussion about how to prune young orchards and what age of trees to plant for commercial orchards.
Early spring is the best time to prune apple trees.
The writer has a small silver prune grafted on hardy root, which he obtained from Mr. Arrowood, Nevis, Minn.
Ward reached out with his left hand--he was gripping the gun in his right, ready for Buck when he showed up--and picked a prune out of the dish.
To the north are the prune orchards for which Clarke county is noted, and the English walnut seems to have found its ideal habitat.
From Vancouver, Washington, this highway starts northward through the prune and plum orchards of Clarke county, where more of these trees grow than in all other parts of the state combined.
Then he sent his prophets to prune it, and stir the soil around it, and watch over it night and day.
So o'er the lake the swan would spring, Then turn to prune its ruffled wing.
And yet, gentlemen, to men that are hungry, pig, with prune sauce, is very good eating.
For the first course at the top, a pig's face and prune sauce.
The native of the surrounding country cares nothing for churches or chateaux, but assumes that the prune industry of Candes is the one thing of interest to the visitor.
Prune and palm trees thrust themselves forward in strong contrast to the cider-apples of the lower Seine.
You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
We may learn the lesson of how not to prune by looking at this great pine tree torn by the storm (Fig.
Is it correct to suppose that "anybody" can prune a tree?
If a tree has a tendency to grow crooked, how should one prune to correct the habit?
Would you prune an elm tree just as you would an apple tree?
He must prune some every year, or the trees will not carry out his plans.
Nature does not always prune in this boisterous fashion.
Why is it better to prune a little every year than a great deal once in five years?
Have you ever seen your father go into the orchard and prune his trees?
A careful orchardist has an ideal in his mind and knows how to prune to bring the tree up to his standard.
When does he prune to increase the production of fruit?
Condemned to silent heroism, I go my unmarked way alone, and no one hands me prune or prism, as token that my deeds are known.
All sorts of seeds, grass, fruit trees of all kinds, and the best way to prune and plant them.
When flowering ceases, give less water and prune hard back.
Having marked the place, prune away all the lateral shoots about and underneath it.
The best time to prune what are termed "Garden roses" is immediately after flowering, which is generally about the middle of June.
Our delightful task To prunethese growing plants, and tend these flowers.
The plant wizard in his initial tests gave to his undeveloped prune trees particular food and conditions and treatment selected for the purpose of imparting specific qualities of deliciousness.
He simply developed all the capability the prune had originally to be like a plum in deliciousness.
A prune somewhat improved in deliciousness was the first result.
Luther Burbank wished his prune trees to develop certain selected qualities of the plum.
He succeeded in getting his experimental prune trees to develop discriminatively, almost as if they had the power of choice, particular plum qualities in preference to others.
But the result was not a transformation of the prunetrees into plum trees.
When he had provided the natural means of discriminative development, he left the rest to the natural growth of his prune trees.
He fed the selected food of deliciousness to the improved prune tree, and a fruit more delicious resulted.
He restricted his experimental prune trees to the development of specific delicious qualities, by giving them no food except that discriminatively selected for his purpose.
Then from the product of that improved prune he started another cycle of development.
Although it is over two weeks since Mr. Clement was here to show me how to prune the orchard, there have been only two days when it was possible to work at the trees.
It was the precursor of the prune as a boarding-house dish, and was once widely used as a substitute for food.
Some have gone so far as to prune their trees this year, and several professional pruners found all the work they wanted to do in this district.
I had been warned not to prune the trees during the full of the moon because at that time the bark is loose and the trees would be injured.
They'll make you scrape the trees and whitewash them and prune them and spray them three or four times and fertilise the land and work it every day.
