TY - JOUR JF - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) JO - JOA SP - 215 LP - 215 DO - 10.48044/joa.1978.4.9.215 VL - 4 IS - 9 A2 - , Y1 - 1978/09/01 UR - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/4/9/215.abstract N2 - Shurtleff, M.C. 1978. Pruning for disease control. Grounds Maintenance 13(1): 30-32, 37.Pruning of trees and shrubs is done principally to preserve and improve their health and appearance and to prevent damage to property and human life. Anything that can be done to make woody plants more vigorous and eliminate environmental stresses aids in controlling a variety of diseases and insects. Future pest and other problems of trees and shrubs can often be eliminated by proper planting, watering, fertilizing, and pruning. Much corrective pruning of older plants could be eliminated if trees and shrubs are properly planted, watered, and fertilized. Broken, split, diseased, dead and seriously insect-infested branches should be removed whenever found. This helps prevent entrance of canker, dieback, gall, wit-ches’-broom, wilt and wood-decay fungi and bacteria. ER -