verb
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To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
verb
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To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
example
A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
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To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
example
to prune a budget, or an essay
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To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
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To preen; to prepare; to dress.
noun
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A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.
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Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.
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A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.
Examples of pruning in a Sentence
Finish the pruning of fruit trees before the middle of the month.
The blossoms of the peach are formed the autumn previous to their expansion, and this fact, together with the peculiarities of their form and position, requires to be borne in mind by the gardener in his pruning and training operations.
The trees form their heads naturally, and therefore little pruning is required, it being merely necessary to cut off straggling growths, and to prevent the branches from interlacing.
The Pruning of flowering plants is generally a much lighter matter than the pruning of fruit trees.
P. alba suffers much from the ravages of wood-eating larvae, and also from fungoid growths, especially where the branches have been removed by pruning or accident.
The refinements of training, as of pruning, may, however, be carried too far; and not unfrequently the symmetrically trained trees of the French excite admiration in every respect save fertility.
The tips of unripened wood should be cut back about one-third their length at an outwardly placed bud, and the chief pruning thereafter required will be to cut away inwardly directed shoots which cross or crowd each other and tend to confuse the centre of the tree.
The half-fan is a combination of the two forms, but as regards pruning does not materially differ from the horizontal, as two opposite side branches are produced in succession upwards till the space is filled, only they are not taken out so abruptly, but are allowed to rise at an acute angle and then to curve into the horizontal line.
This is called summer pruning, and is an important operation requiring knowledge on the part of the gardener to perform properly.
Summer Pruning should be performed while the shoots are yet young and succulent, so that they may in most cases be nipped off with the thumb-nail.
Tomatoes will now be fruiting freely; thin out judiciously, avoiding excessive pruning at one time.
He was an enlightened patron of the new learning, and was inclined to take vigorous measures in hand for the pruning away of the abuses of the church.
Regular pruning will keep your herbs looking bushy and attractive.
In the latter form old trees, the summer pruning of which has been neglected, are apt to acquire an undue projection from the wall and become scraggy, to avoid which a portion of the old spurs should be cut out annually.
To furnish young shoots in sufficient abundance, and of requisite strength, is the great object of peach training and pruning.
The pruning for fruit consists in shortening back the laterals which had been nailed in at the disbudding, or summer pruning, their length depending on their individual vigour and the luxuriance of the tree.
They may be produced, by taking care, during the summer pruning or disbudding, to preserve a number of the little shoots emitted by the yearly wood, only pinching off the minute succulent points.
The pruning and training of the trees in the peach house do not differ materially from the methods practised out of doors.
The practice of pruning or "stopping" is, consciously or unconsciously, regulated by the mode of growth.
In the rose-bush, for instance, in which, as we have seen, the flower-buds are formed on the new wood of the year, pruning causes the old wood to " break," i.e.
Winter pruning is effected when the tree is comparatively at rest, and is therefore less liable to " bleeding " or outpouring of sap. Summer pruning or pinching off the tips of such of the younger shoots as are not required for the extension of the tree, when not carried to too great an extent, is preferable to the coarser more reckless style of pruning.
This upper shoot is at the next winter pruning to be cut down to within about a foot of the point whence it sprung, and its buds rubbed off except the upper one for a leader, and one on each side just below it to furnish another pair of side shoots; these being trained in position, the tree would appear as in fig.
But summer pruning has been much extended since the introduction of restricted growth and the use of dwarfing stocks.
Orchard-house trees, and also pyramidal and bush trees of apples, pears and plums, are mainly fashioned by summer pruning; in fact, the less the knife is used upon them, except in the necessary cutting of the roots in potted trees, the better.
When this pruning is just brought to a balance with the vigour of the roots, the consequence is that fruit buds are formed all over the tree, instead of a thicket of sterile and useless wood.
With all the difficult and slow-growing plants of the hard-wooded section, all the pruning must be done in this gradual way in the young wood as the plant progresses.
After the close pruning of the branches to which they are annually subjected, and when the young shoots have shot forth an inch or two in length, they are turned out of their pots and have the old soil shaken away from their roots, the longest of which, to the extent of about half the existing quantity, are then cut clean away, and the plants repotted into small pots.
The advantages of the operation may generally be gained by judicious root pruning, and it is not at all adapted for the various stone fruits.
The training of standard and bush trees in the open ground has been already referred to under the section Pruning.
Finish the pruning of all deciduous trees and hedges as soon as possible.
If vines have been neglected to be pruned, rub off the buds that are not wanted; this is safer than pruning now.
Finish the summer pruning and training.
Proceed with pruning and nailing wall-trees.
Continue the pruning.
In certain cases of highlying estates, where the growth is slow, it is allowed to run 3 years from pruning.
Shovel-boards, to hold in right (93) or left hand for scraping up the grain in winnowing, are usual in the XVIIIth Dynasty, and are figured in use in the Old Kingdom Pruning knives with curved blades (94) are Italic, and were made of iron by the Romans.
Annual pruning, to which the hawthorn is particularly amenable, is necessary if the hedge is to maintain its compactness and sturdiness.
These become well rooted in about a twelvemonth, and then, after pruning, are bedded out in the nursery for two or three years.
Excessive luxuriance of the laterals may be combated by root pruning, or by checking them early in the season, and again later, and by cutting back to a female blossom bud, or else spurring nearly down to the main branch in the following spring.
A plantation of Scotch fir requires frequent and careful thinning as the young trees increase in size; but pruning should be avoided as much as possible, excepting for the removal of dead wood.
Throughout he adopts and adapts the language of his sources as far as possible, "only pruning in the most pressing cases," but towards the end he cannot avoid making larger alterations from time to time.
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After pruning apply a generous 5-7cm mulch of well-rotted garden compost or manure around the base of the plant.
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