PRUNING GUAVAS.
The present is about tho best timo for pruning tho guava bushes as they aro now as inactive as they ever are during tho twelve months of tho year. One featuro of the guava as a busli fruit is that it is vory ornamental as well ns useful. It can bo trimmed to any desired shiino so that one's artistic tasto can be nulled in when the training of this bush is being attended, to. Of course it is necosary to begin tho the training of this bush is being attended desires to get away from the orthodox method of shaping tho tree. Tho pruning may bo carried out by means of a pair of hedgo : Uppers or with a pair nf sccsleurs If a bush has 100 large, new is the time to cut it back severely to the baro stems so that only the framework is left.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20628, 29 July 1930, Page 14
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151PRUNING GUAVAS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20628, 29 July 1930, Page 14
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